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- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-102 · Hearing; final report; delay of hearing to add new parties; notice.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-103 · Examiner’s powers; contents, filing, and notice of examiner’s report; right to jury trial, new trial, and appeal; recommitment to examiner after trial or reversal on appeal.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-104 · Authority to inspect pertinent records.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-105 · Appointment of stenographer; compensation.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-120 · Furnishing and maintaining register books; issuance of owner’s certificate of title.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-121 · Signing and dating register entries and owners’ certificates.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-122 · Clerk’s duties and liabilities; conclusive effect of registration entries; time for filing caveat; petition for direction.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-123 · Clerk’s duty to ensure proper execution of voluntary transfer; liability for damage or loss arising from registration of improperly executed transfer.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-124 · Performance of duties upon disqualification, death, or disability of clerk.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-125 · When recordation other than registration not required; filing instruments; admissibility of certified copies and use as evidence; recordation procedure when instrument is not in short form.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-126 · Notation of lien or encumbrance on certificate of title — In general.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-127 · Notation of lien or encumbrance on certificate of title — Registered encumbrances, rights, and adverse claims.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-128 · Registration of transactions affecting unregistered land as notice.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-129 · Registration of involuntary transactions on court’s order; form.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-130 · Cancellation of decedent’s certificate and issuance of new certificate to personal representative.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-131 · Declaration of title by descent upon petition; service of petition and publication of notice; transfer of registered title and issuance of new certificates; rights of surviving spouse.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-132 · Compelling production of owner’s certificate for registration of involuntary transfer; cancellation of certificate upon failure to produce it; notice of cancellation.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-133 · Procedure for obtaining duplicate of lost owner’s certificate.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-134 · Filing caveat objecting to entry in title register; show cause hearing upon caveat.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-135 · Obtaining notations in title register.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-136 · Cancellation of mortgage, lien, equity, or lis pendens; entry of cancellation on title register and certificate; procedure upon refusal to authorize cancellation.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-137 · What adverse claims affect registered land; effect of fraud or forgery; limitations on actions to set aside.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-138 · What limitations govern actions by injured party for fraud or negligence.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-139 · [Reserved] Registration and title certificate to run with land.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-140 · Availability of prescription or adverse possession against registered land.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-141 · Rights, burdens, and incidents as to both registered and unregistered land; validity of transfers of title by last registered owner.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-142 · Notation of change of name on register and certificate.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-143 · Notation of liens and lis pendens on register; effect absent notation.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-144 · Freeing land from further registration; certificates as conclusive source of title; notation of encumbrances; when land automatically freed; registered land free of further registration; exception.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-160 · Manner of recording deeds conveying title to registered land; validity of previous conveyances of registered land.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-161 · Partial transfer of registered land; undivided interest; interest in particular portion; notations on register; issuance of certificates.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-162 · Subdivision of registered land; procedure.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-163 · Conveyance to secure debt; form; notation and registration; creditor’s certificate.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-164 · Assignment or negotiation of creditor’s certificate; effect of transfer of indebtedness; surrender and cancellation of certificate; order of cancellation; notation.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-165 · Sale by holder of creditor’s certificate; application for transfer to purchaser; opportunity to object to transfer; order of application of sale proceeds.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-166 · Transfer to secure debt; notation of bond for title or to reconvey.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-167 · Validity and priority of unrecorded transfers of owner’s certificate to registered lands.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-168 · [Reserved] Descent of registered land as personalty.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-169 · Personal representative as trustee; right of personal representative to a commission; power of heirs to require transfer.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-170 · Right of personal representative to have registered land transferred to him where such land transferred to heirs before his appointment; action against heirs who have improperly appropriated land.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-171 · Procedure for ascertaining, and transfer to, heirs or beneficiaries.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-172 · Transfer by clerk pursuant to judgment; production of copy of decree and order.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-173 · Petition for involuntary transfer; referral to examiner; notice; appointment of guardians ad litem; order of transfer.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-174 · Attack on transfers made to hinder, delay, or defraud creditors; decree voiding such transfer; entry of cancellations and transfers on register and certificate.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-175 · Registering subsequent transfers or voluntary conveyances of land held in trust or otherwise restricted.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-176 · Duty of tax officer to have delinquent taxes or assessments noted; effect of delinquencies prior to notation; liability of officer.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-190 · Payment into assurance fund upon original registration; determination of amount.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-191 · Separate account for assurance fund.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-192 · Investment of fund; application of income; transfer of excess.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-193 · Action against fund — Limitations; defense by Attorney General; measure of damages; tolling of limitations during disability; notice to unknown persons.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-194 · Action against fund — Parties defendant.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-195 · Action against fund — Execution on judgment; payment from fund; liability of other defendants to plaintiff and to fund.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-196 · Action against fund — How judgments satisfied when fund insufficient; interest.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-197 · Liability of fund for registered owner’s breach of trust.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-210 · Fees under article; deposit and payment of fees; award of costs.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-220 · Power of judges to make general rules and forms for matters under this article; power to modify forms; uniformity of forms.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-221 · Petition to register land.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-222 · Process.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-223 · Advertisement.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-224 · Acknowledgment of service.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-225 · Sheriff’s return.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-226 · Certificate of mailing; entry of such certificate on petition.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-227 · Examiner’s appointment.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-228 · Oath of examiner.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-229 · Referral to examiner.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-230 · Preliminary report of examiner; schedules.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-231 · Final report of examiner.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-232 · Decrees of title.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-233 · Book of decrees; index.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-234 · Title register book; registered title number; index of title register.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-235 · Duty of clerk to enter on new certificate all entries and notations of record.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-236 · Certified copies of certificates of title or entries thereon.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-237 · Recordation and notation of plat.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-238 · Recordation of lengthy description — Reference on title register; effect.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-239 · Recordation of lengthy description — Notation on owner’s or creditor’s certificate; attaching certified copy; fee.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-240 · Owner’s certificate of title.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-241 · Transfer of whole of registered estates, undivided interests, divided portions, and to secure debt, with power of sale.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-242 · Creditor’s certificate; endorsement of certificate.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-243 · Transfer of portion or undivided interest to secure debt.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-244 · Judge’s order of transfer.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-245 · Registration and recordation of mortgages.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-246 · Notation of delinquent taxes or assessments.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-247 · Notation of judgment.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-248 · Notation of special right; notice of lis pendens; recordation and notation of lengthy descriptions.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-249 · Cancellation of creditor’s certificate.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-250 · Request to cancel entries.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-251 · [Reserved] Registration and notation of other voluntary transactions.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-252 · Updating entries and notations on owner’s certificate; clerk’s endorsement.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-2-253 · Filing cases; method of filing papers relating to registered lands.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-3-1 · Short title.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-3-2 · Definitions.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-3-3 · Registration statement; accompanying documents; material changes; property report; lots or parcels subject to blanket encumbrances; records subject to inspection by purchaser; copy of property report to be given to prospective purchasers; sales contract; amendments to report.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-3-4 · Exemptions from Code Section 44-3-3.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-3-4.1 · [Repealed] Fees and expenses of commission.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-3-5 · Violations of article.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-3-6 · Order prohibiting act, practice, or transaction in violation of article; injunctive relief.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-3-7 · Willful violation of article; effect on statutory or common-law right to punish violations; effect of article on Attorney General.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-3-8 · Rights of buyer upon violation; persons liable for violations; limitation on actions; survival of actions; effect on statutory or common-law rights; exemption of advertisers from liability.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-3-8.1 · [Repealed] Denial of application, reprimand, suspension, civil penalty, or revocation of registration.
- O.C.G.A. § 44-3-9 · Venue.