{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-7-1-167","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 7-1-167","heading":"Payment of mortgages and liens; protection of equities.","body":"The department may, with leave of court, pay off all mortgages, security deeds, security agreements, and liens of or upon any real or personal property which belong to the financial institution. It may, without leave of court, purchase, at a judicial sale or at any sale authorized by an order of a court of competent jurisdiction, any real or personal property in order to protect any equity which the financial institution has in such real or personal property.","path":["TITLE 7 Banking And Finance","CHAPTER 1 Financial Institutions","Article 1 Provisions Applicable to Department of Banking and Finance and Financial Institutions Generally","PART 7 Receivership Powers and Procedures Generally"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.07.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"6b2270b52ed15996e96c8d5f7b0e81726b1d9eac58cfb180ba1f4ab760bf1177","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-7-1-166","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-7-1-168"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}