Harper v. First National Bank

Clark, Judge.

This appeal presents a procedural problem dealing with our new statute covering foreclosures of security instruments on personal property.

The statute appears in Ga. L. 1974, p. 398 under the caption of "Mortgages — Provisions for foreclosures of mortgages on personalty changed.” It repealed in toto the existing Chapter 67-7 of the Code and enacted a new Code *691Chapter which carries the same numbers1 as to both chapter and sections. Our previous foreclosure procedure was created by the Judiciary Act of 1799 when Georgia was one of the first states to abolish special pleadings. Minor…