Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 13. CONTRACTS · Chapter 4. MODIFICATION, EXTINGUISHMENT, AND RENEWAL · Article 6. ACCORD AND SATISFACTION

13-4-102. Benefit to creditor.

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An accord and satisfaction must be of some advantage, legal or equitable, to the creditor or it shall not have the effect of barring him from his legal rights under the original agreement.

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, § 2821; Code 1868, § 2829; Code 1873, § 2880; Code 1882, § 2880; Civil Code 1895, § 3734; Civil Code 1910, § 4328; Code 1933, § 20-1203.

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