The special lien provided for in Code Section 44-14-344 may be foreclosed by the transferee in his own name. The affidavit of foreclosure shall contain a recital of the fact of transfer and such other allegations as are necessary in the foreclosure of special liens by landlords.
(Ga. L. 1882-83, p. 109, § 2; Civil Code 1895, § 2799; Civil Code 1910, § 3344; Code 1933, § 61-207.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 49 Am. Jur. 2d, Landlord and Tenant, § 804.
C.J.S.- 52 C.J.S., Landlord and Tenant, § 614.
ALR.
- Assignment of lease as breach of covenant against subletting, 7 A.L.R. 249; 79 A.L.R. 1379.
Rights of lessee who relets for entire term as against sublessee or person claiming under latter, 32 A.L.R. 1429.
Acceptance of rent from assignee or sublessee as relieving assignor or sublessor, 36 A.L.R. 316.
Lessee as surety for rent after assignment; and effect of lessor's dealings (other than consent to assignment or mere acceptance of rent from assignee) to release lessee, 99 A.L.R. 1238.