Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 13. CONTRACTS · Chapter 3. ELEMENTS AND FORMATION GENERALLY · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

13-3-4. Effect of conditions precedent or subsequent upon rights of parties under contracts.

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Conditions may be precedent or subsequent. A condition precedent must be performed before the contract becomes absolute and obligatory upon the other party. The breach of a condition subsequent may destroy the party’s rights under the contract or may give a right to damages to the other party, according to a true construction of the intention of the parties.

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, § 2684; Code 1868, § 2680; Code 1873, § 2722; Code 1882, § 2722; Civil Code 1895, § 3639; Civil Code 1910, § 4224; Code 1933, § 20-110.

Law reviews

For article surveying developments in Georgia contracts law from mid-1980 through mid-1981, see 33 Mercer L. Rev. 67 (1981).

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