Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 6. AGENCY · Article 4. RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF AGENT AS TO THIRD PERSONS

10-6-81. Recovery for mistaken payment to principal.

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If money shall be paid to an agent by mistake and he in good faith shall pay it over to his principal, he shall not thereafter be personally liable therefor. In all other cases he shall be liable for its repayment. If money shall be paid by an agent by mistake, he may recover it in his own name.

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, § 2186; Code 1868, § 2182; Code 1873, § 2208; Code 1882, § 2208; Civil Code 1895, § 3036; Civil Code 1910, § 3608; Code 1933, § 4-403.

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