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Title 11. COMMERCIAL CODE · Chapter 2A. · Article 2A. LEASES · Part 5. DEFAULT

11-2A-531. Standing to sue third parties for injury to goods.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (1)

    If a third party so deals with goods that have been identified to a lease contract as to cause actionable injury to a party to the lease contract (a) the lessor has a right of action against the third party, and (b) the lessee also has a right of action against the third party if the lessee:#

    1. (i)

      Has a security interest in the goods;#

    2. (ii)

      Has an insurable interest in the goods; or#

    3. (iii)

      Bears the risk of loss under the lease contract or has since the injury assumed that risk as against the lessor and the goods have been converted or destroyed.#

  2. (2)

    If at the time of the injury the party plaintiff did not bear the risk of loss as against the other party to the lease contract and there is no arrangement between them for disposition of the recovery, his suit or settlement, subject to his own interest, is as a fiduciary for the other party to the lease contract.#

  3. (3)

    Either party with the consent of the other may sue for the benefit of whom it may concern.#

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

Code 1981, § 11-2A-531, enacted by Ga. L. 1993, p. 633, § 1.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t11-(v9)-2022-pdf.pdf, Volume V9, 2022 edition, pages 331 to 332; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 ad397fccbf21.