Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 13. CONTRACTS · Chapter 4. MODIFICATION, EXTINGUISHMENT, AND RENEWAL · Article 2. PERFORMANCE

13-4-20. Requirements as to performance of contractual obligations generally.

Active

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

Performance, to be effectual, must be accomplished by the party bound to perform, or by his agent where personal skill is not required, or by someone substituted, by consent, in his place, and must be substantially in compliance with the spirit and the letter of the contract and completed within a reasonable time.

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, § 2811; Code 1868, § 2819; Code 1873, § 2870; Code 1882, § 2870; Civil Code 1895, § 3724; Civil Code 1910, § 4318; Code 1933, § 20-1101.

Cross references

Delegation of performance under Uniform Commercial Code, § 11-2-210. Effect of absence of specific time provision in sales contracts under Uniform Commercial Code, § 11-2-309. Duty of administrator or executor to fulfill, when possible, decedent’s contractual obligations, § 53-7-9.

Law reviews

For article discussing failure of consideration, see 4 Mercer L. Rev. 327 (1953). For article surveying recent legislative and judicial developments in Georgia’s real property laws, see 31 Mercer L. Rev. 187 (1979).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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

Text read from t13-(v11)-2010-pdf.pdf, Volume V11, 2010 edition, page 236; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 18573afb153d.

Ask about this section

The answer is drawn from this section and, when they fit, the other sections of its chapter. It quotes the text and names the section for each claim. Not legal advice.