Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 6. AGENCY · Article 3. RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF PRINCIPAL TO THIRD PERSONS

10-6-63. Recovery of illegal or mistaken payments.

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The principal may recover back money paid illegally or by mistake of his agent or goods wrongfully transferred by the agent, the party receiving the goods having notice of the agent’s want of authority or willful misconduct.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 2183; Code 1868, § 2179; Code 1873, § 2205; Code 1882, § 2205; Civil Code 1895, § 3033; Civil Code 1910, § 3605; Code 1933, § 4-314.

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