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title: O.C.G.A. § 10-6-30. Proper accounting required.
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# O.C.G.A. § 10-6-30. Proper accounting required.

It shall be the duty of agents, trustees, administrators, guardians, conservators, receivers, and all other fiduciaries to keep their accounts in a regular manner and to be always ready with them supported by proper vouchers; neglect of this duty shall be ground for charging them with interest on balances on hand and with costs.

## History

Civil Code 1895, § 3007; Civil Code 1910, § 3579; Code 1933, § 4-211; Ga. L. 2006, p. 805, § 2/SB 534.

## History of Code Section.

This Code section is derived from the decisions in Dowling v. Feeley, 72 Ga. 557 (1884), and Poullain v. Poullain, 76 Ga. 420, 4 S.E. 92 (1886).