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title: O.C.G.A. § 10-3-4. Certain notes or contracts for patent rights, copyrights, or proprietary rights; purchaser takes subject to equities.
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# O.C.G.A. § 10-3-4. Certain notes or contracts for patent rights, copyrights, or proprietary rights; purchaser takes subject to equities.

Any person, firm, company, or corporation who may purchase any note, contract, or other evidence of debt given for any of the articles or things set forth in Code Section 10-3-3 when the consideration of said note is expressed on the face thereof as is provided in said Code section, whether before due and without notice or otherwise, where the consideration is so expressed, shall take the same with all the equities existing between the original parties; and the maker of such note, contract, or other evidence of debt shall have the right to make any defense to the payment of same as against such purchasers that could have been made against the original payee.

## History

Ga. L. 1897, p. 81, § 2; Civil Code 1910, § 4294; Code 1933, § 14-1805.

## Law Reviews

For article, “Copyright = Speech,” see 65 Emory L.J. 199 (2015).