In arriving at the net amount of the digest, the default list shall be deducted in the case of tax receivers and the insolvent list shall be deducted in the case of tax collectors.
(Laws 1847, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 1079; Ga. L. 1851-52, p. 288, § 19; Code 1863, § 738; Code 1868, § 805; Code 1873, § 808; Code 1882, § 808; Civil Code 1895, § 774; Civil Code 1910, § 1014; Code 1933, § 92-5302; Code 1933, § 91A-1371, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 309, § 2.)