--- title: O.C.G.A. § 10-1-491. Effect of failing to register on contracts. collection: code id: 10-1-491 cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 10-1-491 (2025) canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-1-491 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-1-491.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-1-491/text source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t10-(v8)-2024-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=1992b47e_0#page=407 date: 2025 status: active corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68 license: CC0-1.0 publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-1.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-1-490.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-1-492.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md version: the only printed version in_force: true current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly heading_path: COMMERCE AND TRADE / SELLING AND OTHER TRADE PRACTICES / TRADEMARKS, SERVICE MARKS, AND TRADE NAMES / REGISTRATION OF BUSINESSES USING TRADE NAMES --- # O.C.G.A. § 10-1-491. Effect of failing to register on contracts. The effect of this part shall be that no contract or undertaking entered into by any person, firm, or corporation, whether heretofore or hereafter entered into, shall be invalidated or declared illegal on the ground that the same was entered into in a trade or partnership name not filed or registered in accordance with the laws in force at the time such contract or undertaking was entered into; but all such contracts and undertakings are expressly validated as against any such objection; and no action heretofore or hereafter instituted by any such person, firm, partnership, or corporation, whether sounding in contract or tort, shall be defeated because of any such failure to register. But the party who has failed to register his trade or partnership name at the time action is filed, as required by this part, shall be cast with court costs. ## History Ga. L. 1937, p. 804, § 5.