Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 18. DEBTOR AND CREDITOR · Chapter 2. DEBTOR AND CREDITOR RELATIONS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

18-2-1. Creation of relationship of debtor and creditor.

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Whenever one person, by contract or by law, is liable and bound to pay to another an amount of money, certain or uncertain, the relation of debtor and creditor exists between them.

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, § 1946; Code 1868, § 1934; Code 1873, § 1944; Code 1882, § 1944; Civil Code 1895, § 2686; Civil Code 1910, § 3215; Code 1933, § 28-101.

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