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title: O.C.G.A. § 18-2-1. Creation of relationship of debtor and creditor.
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# O.C.G.A. § 18-2-1. Creation of relationship of debtor and creditor.

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.

## 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.