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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 13. CONTRACTS · Chapter 5. DEFENSES · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

13-5-8. Noncompliance with condition, failure of consideration, or other act as defense.

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

  1. A condition, precedent or subsequent, not complied with, insufficiency or failure of consideration, or any act of the opposite party, by which the obligation of the contract has ceased, may be pleaded as a defense.

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, § 2798; Code 1868, § 2806; Code 1873, § 2857; Code 1882, § 2857; Civil Code 1895, § 3707; Civil Code 1910, § 4301; Code 1933, § 20-902.

Cross references

General rules of pleading and requirement of setting forth failure of consideration as an affirmative defense, § 9-11-8. Pleading of special matters, § 9-11-9.

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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 319; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 18573afb153d.