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GA Code § 10-7-28 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 7 - Suretyship|Article 2 - Relative Rights of Creditor and Surety|§ 10-7-28. Process Sued Out and Judgment Entered Against Surety as Such

 When the fact of suretyship appears on the face of the contract, the creditor shall sue out process against the surety and enter up judgment against him as such.   (Laws 1845, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 598; Laws 1850, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 600; Code 1863, § 2137; Code 1868, § 2132; Code 1873, § 2159; Code 1882, § 2159; Civil Code 1895, § 2977; Civil Code 1910, § 3549; Code 1933, § 103-208.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Incapacity of principal to contract as affecting liability of guarantor or surety, 24 A.L.R. 838; 43 A.L.R. 589.    Right to and form of judgment against one discharged in bankruptcy in order to sustain attachment or garnishment or to perfect a right of action against one secondarily liable as surety on a bond given to dissolve the same, 81 A.L.R. 81.    Right to bring action against guarantor before right to bring action against principal has arisen, 145 A.L.R. 935.
GA Code § 10-7-40 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 7 - Suretyship|Article 3 - Rights of Surety Against Principal, Cosureties, and Third Persons|§ 10-7-40. Attachment Against Principal

 A surety or endorser is entitled to the process of attachment against his principal before payment of the debt under the same circumstances as any other creditor.   (Orig. Code 1863, § 2138; Code 1868, § 2133; Code 1873, § 2160; Code 1882, § 2160; Civil Code 1895, § 2979; Civil Code 1910, § 3551; Code 1933, § 103-301.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 74 Am. Jur. 2d, Suretyship, §§ 58, 143.   C.J.S.   - 72 C.J.S., Principal and Surety, §§ 184 et seq., 200.
GA Code § 10-7-42 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 7 - Suretyship|Article 3 - Rights of Surety Against Principal, Cosureties, and Third Persons|§ 10-7-42. Action for Money Paid, Interest, and Costs - Effect of Judgment Against Surety

 If the payment was made after judgment and the principal had notice of the pendency of the action against the surety, the amount of such judgment shall be conclusive against the principal as to the amount for which the surety was bound. If the payment was not made after judgment, the principal may dispute the validity of the payment as to the amount or as to the authority of the person to whom it was paid.   (Orig. Code 1863, § 2140; Code 1868, § 2135; Code 1873, § 2162; Code 1882, § 2162; Civil Code 1895, § 2981; Civil Code 1910, § 3553; Code 1933, § 103-303.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Construction and application of contractual provision regarding payment by surety of claim as evidence of principal's liability to surety ("conclusive evidence" clause), 144 A.L.R. 521.   Judgment obtained by third person against indemnitee as conclusive against the latter, irrespective of its conclusiveness against indemnitor, in indemnitee's action against indemnitor for amount paid in satisfaction of judgment, 24 A.L.R.2d 329.   What constitutes action on bond, executed under law of United States, so as to be within Federal District Court's jurisdiction under 28 USCS § 1352, 105 A.L.R. Fed. 716.
GA Code § 10-7-43 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 7 - Suretyship|Article 3 - Rights of Surety Against Principal, Cosureties, and Third Persons|§ 10-7-43. Action for Money Paid, Interest, and Costs - Recovery of Usury Paid by Surety

 If the contract was originally usurious and the surety in making payment includes the usury, he shall recover the same from the principal unless previous to the payment he had notice of the intention of the principal to resist usury.   (Orig. Code 1863, § 2141; Code 1868, § 2136; Code 1873, § 2163; Code 1882, § 2163; Civil Code 1895, § 2982; Civil Code 1910, § 3554; Code 1933, § 103-304.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 72 C.J.S., Principal and Surety, § 183.
GA Code § 10-7-44 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 7 - Suretyship|Article 3 - Rights of Surety Against Principal, Cosureties, and Third Persons|§ 10-7-44. Foreclosure of Mortgage or Enforcement of Security Given by Principal

 If the principal executes any mortgage or gives other security to the surety or endorser to indemnify him against loss by reason of his suretyship, the surety or endorser may proceed to foreclose such mortgage or enforce such other lien or security as soon as judgment shall be rendered against him on his contract.   (Orig. Code 1863, § 2142; Code 1868, § 2137; Code 1873, § 2164; Code 1882, § 2164; Civil Code 1895, § 2983; Civil Code 1910, § 3555; Code 1933, § 103-305.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Right of surety or his privies to require creditor to resort to security given by principal before enforcing security given by surety, 37 A.L.R. 1262.
GA Code § 10-7-45 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 7 - Suretyship|Article 3 - Rights of Surety Against Principal, Cosureties, and Third Persons|§ 10-7-45. Proof of Suretyship - by Parol

 If the fact of suretyship does not appear on the face of the contract, it may be proved by parol, either before or after judgment (the creditor not being delayed in his remedy by such collateral issue between the principal and his surety), if before judgment the surety shall give notice to the principal of his intention to make such proof.   (Laws 1826, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 593; Code 1863, § 2143; Code 1868, § 2138; Code 1873, § 2165; Code 1882, § 2165; Civil Code 1895, § 2984; Civil Code 1910, § 3556; Code 1933, § 103-306.)   Cross references.   - Oral proof of accommodation party's status, § 11-3-415(3).   JUDICIAL DECISIONS   ANALYSIS    General Consideration   Proof   Application   Notice    RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 74 Am. Jur. 2d, Suretyship, § 136.   C.J.S.   - 72 C.J.S., Principal and Surety, §§ 193, 194.
GA Code § 10-7-46 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 7 - Suretyship|Article 3 - Rights of Surety Against Principal, Cosureties, and Third Persons|§ 10-7-46. Proof of Suretyship - After Judgment

 If judgment has been rendered without such proof of suretyship, the surety shall give at least ten days' notice to his principal of his intention to apply at the next term of the court where the judgment was entered to make such proof and to have the fact of his suretyship entered of record, together with an order for the control of such judgment and execution thereon against the principal, on payment of the same by him.   (Laws 1850, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 599; Code 1863, § 2144; Code 1868, § 2139; Code 1873, § 2166; Code 1882, § 2166; Civil Code 1895, § 2985; Civil Code 1910, § 3557; Code 1933, § 103-307.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 74 Am. Jur. 2d, Suretyship, § 170 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 72 C.J.S., Principal and Surety, § 13.
GA Code § 10-7-49 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 7 - Suretyship|Article 3 - Rights of Surety Against Principal, Cosureties, and Third Persons|§ 10-7-49. Payment Pending Action; Judgment for Plaintiff for Use of Surety

 If the surety pays off the debt pending the action against the principal and himself or against the principal alone, such payment shall operate only to cause the action to proceed for the benefit of such surety; and the judgment may be entered in the name of the original plaintiff for the use of such surety.   (Ga. L. 1857, p. 111, § 1; Code 1863, § 2147; Code 1868, § 2142; Code 1873, § 2169; Code 1882, § 2169; Civil Code 1895, § 2988; Civil Code 1910, § 3560; Code 1933, § 103-310.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Right of building contractor's surety who completes contract to money earned by contractor but unpaid before default, 45 A.L.R. 379; 134 A.L.R. 738; 164 A.L.R. 613.
GA Code § 10-7-50 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 7 - Suretyship|Article 3 - Rights of Surety Against Principal, Cosureties, and Third Persons|§ 10-7-50. Compelling Contribution - After Paying More Than Equal Share; Effect of Surety's Insolvency

 Where several are sureties for the same principal for the same sum of money, either by one or by distinct instruments, and one pays more than an equal share of the sum, he may compel contribution from his cosureties. If one of the cosureties is insolvent, the deficiency in his share must be borne equally by the solvent sureties.   (Laws 1840, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 597; Code 1863, § 2151; Code 1868, § 2146; Code 1873, § 2173; Code 1882, § 2173; Civil Code 1895, § 2992; Civil Code 1910, § 3564; Code 1933, § 103-401.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 74 Am. Jur. 2d, Suretyship, § 147 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 72 C.J.S., Principal and Surety, § 226 et seq.   ALR.    - Exhaustion of remedies against, or insolvency of, principal as condition of enforcing contribution between coguarantors or cosureties, 29 A.L.R. 273.    Right to contribution or indemnity of executor, administrator, guardian, testamentary trustee, or sureties against a cofiduciary or sureties, in respect of losses or defaults for which the fiduciaries are answerable, 66 A.L.R. 1147.    Right of surety or guarantor who pays judgment to preservation thereof as against his cosureties or coguarantors, 71 A.L.R. 300.    Rights and liabilities as between sureties on successive bonds given by executor, administrator, trustee, or guardian, 76 A.L.R. 904.    Transmission of fund from ancillary to domiciliary jurisdiction, or liability of sureties on bond given in the latter jurisdiction, as affecting liability of sureties on bond given in the former jurisdiction, 78 A.L.R. 575.    Joinder in one action of sureties on different bonds relating to same matter, 106 A.L.R. 90; 137 A.L.R. 1044.    Rights and liabilities as between sureties on successive bonds given in course of litigation, 117 A.L.R. 583.    Right of one cojudgment debtor who pays judgment to be subrogated thereto as against the other cojudgment debtors, 157 A.L.R. 495.    Right of surety on recognizance or bail bond to indemnity or contribution, 170 A.L.R. 1161.    Limitation by surety of amount of his liability as affecting liability to contribution, 172 A.L.R. 1447.   Apportionment of liability between automobile liability insurers one or more of whose policies provide against any liability if there is other insurance, 46 A.L.R.2d 1163.   Right of guarantor or surety, in order to avoid paying amount in excess of his proportionate share, to compel coguarantors or cosureties to pay their share to creditor, 38 A.L.R.3d 680.
GA Code § 10-7-51 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 7 - Suretyship|Article 3 - Rights of Surety Against Principal, Cosureties, and Third Persons|§ 10-7-51. Compelling Contribution - Interest on Sum Recovered as Contribution

 The sum recovered as contribution shall bear interest from the time the original obligation was paid by the surety and shall be deemed and held a liquidated demand.   (Orig. Code 1863, § 2152; Code 1868, § 2147; Code 1873, § 2174; Code 1882, § 2174; Civil Code 1895, § 2993; Civil Code 1910, § 3565; Code 1933, § 103-402.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 72 C.J.S., Principal and Surety, § 226 et seq.   ALR.   - Rights of one entitled to contribution to recover interest, 27 A.L.R.2d 1268.
GA Code § 10-7-52 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 7 - Suretyship|Article 3 - Rights of Surety Against Principal, Cosureties, and Third Persons|§ 10-7-52. Compelling Contribution - Duty to Account for Indemnification From Principal; Compelling Transfer of Security From Principal

 A surety suing for contribution must first account for all money or other things received from the principal to indemnify him against loss; and, if he has paid the entire debt, he may compel his cosurety to transfer to him any mortgage or other security taken from the principal for the protection of such cosurety, by relieving him of all liability for contribution.   (Orig. Code 1863, § 2153; Code 1868, § 2148; Code 1873, § 2175; Code 1882, § 2175; Civil Code 1895, § 2994; Civil Code 1910, § 3566; Code 1933, § 103-403.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Rights and liabilities as between sureties on successive bonds given by executor, administrator, trustee, or guardian, 76 A.L.R. 904.    Right of surety to share in benefit of security or indemnity taken by another surety on or before becoming such, 95 A.L.R. 305.    Validity, construction, and application of guaranty of corporate stock, or dividends thereon, by one other than corporation, 107 A.L.R. 1171.
GA Code § 10-7-53 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 7 - Suretyship|Article 3 - Rights of Surety Against Principal, Cosureties, and Third Persons|§ 10-7-53. Compelling Contribution - Controlling Action on Debt and Judgments Therein

 Code Sections 10-7-40 through 10-7-49 shall apply to cases where there is more than one surety, so as to enable a surety discharging a joint debt, in whole or in part, either pending the action or after joint or several judgments, to control the same against his cosureties for the purpose of compelling them to contribute their respective shares of the amount so paid by him.   (Laws 1840, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 597; Laws 1850, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 599; Ga. L. 1857, p. 111, § 3; Code 1863, § 2148; Code 1868, § 2143; Code 1873, § 2170; Code 1882, § 2170; Civil Code 1895, § 2989; Civil Code 1910, § 3561; Code 1933, § 103-311.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 74 Am. Jur. 2d, Suretyship, § 147.   C.J.S.   - 72 C.J.S., Principal and Surety, § 226 et seq.   ALR.    - Right of surety or guarantor who pays judgment to preservation thereof as against his cosureties or coguarantors, 71 A.L.R. 300.    Joinder in one action of sureties on different bonds relating to same matter, 106 A.L.R. 90; 137 A.L.R. 1044.    Limitation by surety of amount of his liability as affecting liability to contribution, 172 A.L.R. 1447.   Right of guarantor or surety, in order to avoid paying amount in excess of his proportionate share, to compel coguarantors or cosureties to pay their share to creditor, 38 A.L.R.3d 680.
GA Code § 10-7-55 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 7 - Suretyship|Article 3 - Rights of Surety Against Principal, Cosureties, and Third Persons|§ 10-7-55. Protection of Bona Fide Purchasers When Surety Controls Judgment

 When the surety does not appear to be such in the judgment and execution, the lien of such judgment, when controlled by the surety, shall not interfere with bona fide purchasers without notice from the principal, whose rights were vested before the order giving control to the surety was granted.   (Laws 1845, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 598; Code 1863, § 2150; Code 1868, § 2145; Code 1873, § 2172; Code 1882, § 2172; Civil Code 1895, § 2991; Civil Code 1910, § 3563; Code 1933, § 103-313.)
GA Code § 10-7-56 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 7 - Suretyship|Article 3 - Rights of Surety Against Principal, Cosureties, and Third Persons|§ 10-7-56. Subrogation to Rights of Creditor - Priority of Claim

 A surety who has paid the debt of his principal shall be subrogated, both at law and in equity, to all the rights of the creditor and, in a controversy with other creditors, shall rank in dignity the same as the creditor whose claim he paid.   (Ga. L. 1857, p. 111, § 4; Code 1863, § 2155; Code 1868, § 2150; Code 1873, § 2176; Code 1882, § 2176; Civil Code 1895, § 2995; Civil Code 1910, § 3567; Code 1933, § 103-501.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 74 Am. Jur. 2d, Suretyship, §§ 119, 171.   23 Am. Jur. Pleading and Practice Forms, Subrogation, § 2.   ALR.    - Right of surety on warehouseman's bond to be subrogated to rights of owner of property stored as against third person, 4 A.L.R. 518.    Payment of entire claim of third person as condition of subrogation, 9 A.L.R. 1596, 32 A.L.R. 568; 46 A.L.R. 857; 53 A.L.R. 304; 91 A.L.R. 855.    Right of surety who discharges obligation due to government, to be subrogated to rights of latter against third persons, 24 A.L.R. 1523.    Right of building contractor's surety who completes contract to money earned by contractor but unpaid before default, 45 A.L.R. 379; 134 A.L.R. 738; 164 A.L.R. 613.    Adjudication as essential to right of surety or endorser to be subrogated to payee's rights in collateral, 62 A.L.R. 551.    Right as between surety on contractor's bond and assignee of money to become due on contract, 76 A.L.R. 917.    Right of surety on supersedeas or appeal bond to subrogation, 77 A.L.R. 452.    Right of a third person who has paid corporation's indebtedness to be subrogated to creditors' right to enforce stockholders' statutory liability, 78 A.L.R. 611.    Right of surety on fidelity bond to be subrogated to obligee's right as against third person who caused or contributed to loss or failed in his duty to discover it, 95 A.L.R. 269.    Right of subrogation of fiduciary's surety to claim of the estate against third person who knew or was chargeable with notice that fiduciary's transaction with him involved breach of fiduciary's obligation, 134 A.L.R. 997.    Surety's right to be subrogated to obligee's right against third person as affected by equities in favor of latter which are insufficient to prevent his liability to obligee, 137 A.L.R. 700.    Right of one cojudgment debtor who pays judgment to be subrogated thereto as against the other cojudgment debtors, 157 A.L.R. 495.    Right of surety who has not paid debt to judicial protection of right of subrogation to creditor's securities, 160 A.L.R. 421.    Rights and remedies incident to subrogation to one but not both elements of a single cause of action for injury to person and damage to property, 166 A.L.R. 870.   Right of indemnitee's insurer defending action against indemnitee, to recover costs and attorneys' fees from indemnitor, 77 A.L.R.2d 1143.
GA Code § 10-7-57 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 7 - Suretyship|Article 3 - Rights of Surety Against Principal, Cosureties, and Third Persons|§ 10-7-57. Subrogation to Rights of Creditor - as to Securities Held by Creditor

 A surety who has paid the debt of his principal shall also be entitled to be substituted in place of the creditor as to all securities held by him for the payment of the debt.   (Orig. Code 1863, § 2156; Code 1868, § 2151; Code 1873, § 2177; Code 1882, § 2177; Civil Code 1895, § 2996; Civil Code 1910, § 3568; Code 1933, § 103-502.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 74 Am. Jur. 2d, Suretyship, § 119.   23 Am. Jur. Pleading and Practice Forms, Subrogation, § 2.   C.J.S.   - 72 C.J.S., Principal and Surety, § 181 et seq.   ALR.    - Payment of entire claim of third person as condition of subrogation, 9 A.L.R. 1596; 32 A.L.R. 568; 46 A.L.R. 857; 53 A.L.R. 304; 91 A.L.R. 855.    Adjudication as essential to right of surety or endorser to be subrogated to payee's rights in collateral, 62 A.L.R. 551.    Right as between surety on contractor's bond and assignee of money to become due on contract, 76 A.L.R. 917.    Right of subrogation of fiduciary's surety to claim of the estate against third person who knew or was chargeable with notice that fiduciary's transaction with him involved breach of fiduciary's obligation, 134 A.L.R. 997.    Surety's right to be subrogated to obligee's right against third person as affected by equities in favor of latter which are insufficient to prevent his liability to obligee, 137 A.L.R. 700.    Right of surety who has not paid debt to judicial protection of right of subrogation to creditor's securities, 160 A.L.R. 421.
GA Code § 10-9-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 9 - Geo. L. Smith Ii Georgia World Congress Center|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-9-1. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Geo. L. Smith II Georgia World Congress Center Act."    (Ga. L. 1974, p. 174, § 1; Code 1981, §10-9-1, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 1122, § 1; Ga. L. 2017, p. 774, § 10/HB 323.)    The 2017 amendment,  effective May 9, 2017, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted "This chapter shall be known and may be cited" for "This chapter may be known and cited" at the beginning of this Code section.
GA Code § 10-9-2 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 9 - Geo. L. Smith Ii Georgia World Congress Center|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-9-2. Re-Creation of "Geo. L. Smith Ii Georgia World Congress Center authority."

 There is re-created the "Geo. L. Smith II Georgia World Congress Center Authority" as a body corporate and politic, which shall be an instrumentality of the State of Georgia and a public corporation.    (Code 1981, §10-9-2, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 1122, § 1.)
GA Code § 10-9-4.1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 9 - Geo. L. Smith Ii Georgia World Congress Center|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 10-9-4.1. Adoption and Enforcement of Ordinances Relating to Property, Affairs, and Administration of Authority; Penalties

  In addition to and not in derogation of its other powers under this chapter, the authority is empowered to exercise such of the police powers of the state as may be necessary to maintain peace and order.   The authority shall have legislative power to adopt reasonable ordinances relating to the property, affairs, and administration of the authority for which no provision has been made by general law and which are not inconsistent with the general laws and Constitution of the State of Georgia and the laws and Constitution of the United States. The officers of the Georgia World Congress Center Police, including the Security Guard Division thereof, and law enforcement officers acting within the jurisdiction of the authority under paragraph (3) of subsection (d) of Code Section 10-9-15, and subject to the requirements of Chapter 8 of Title 35, the "Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Act," shall be authorized to serve and execute warrants and to make arrests for violation of ordinances adopted by the authority. For the purposes of exercising the powers and responsibilities of such officers as peace officers under paragraph (8) of Code Section 35-8-2, including their duties and responsibilities with respect to matters occurring within the limits of the facilities of the authority or requests by another law enforcement agency to provide aid and assistance, such officers shall have the same authority, powers, privileges, and immunities regarding enforcement of laws as law enforcement officers employed by the state. Prosecutions for violations of the ordinances of the authority shall be in the magistrate court sitting in the county in which such violation occurs as provided in Article 4 of Chapter 10 of Title 15. The authority may provide that ordinance violations may be tried upon citations with or without a prosecuting attorney as well as upon accusations in the manner prescribed in Code Section 15-10-63.   The maximum punishment for violation of such an ordinance shall be stated in the ordinance and shall not exceed a fine of $500.00 or imprisonment for 60 days, or both.   Nothing in this Code section shall prevent prosecution of any act which is a violation of an ordinance of the authority under any law applicable to such act.     (Code 1981, §10-9-4.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 916, § 1.)