§ 9-13-169.Note or memorandum unnecessary

Georgia’s statute of frauds generally requires a signed writing to enforce a contract for the sale of land, among other categories of contracts. A judicial sale is, in form, a sale, so without this section a defaulting bidder might argue there was never a signed contract binding enough to enforce. This section forecloses that argument outright: no note or memorandum in writing is necessary to charge any person at a judicial sale.

The practical effect is that an oral bid accepted at public outcry is enough on its own to bind the bidder, whether the property being sold is real estate or personal property. That rule connects directly to Code Section 9-13-170, which spells out the consequence — liability for the purchase money, at the selling officer’s election — when a bidder bound this way then fails or refuses to go through with the sale.