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# O.C.G.A. § 18-2-82. Applicability of principles of law and equity.

Unless displaced by the provisions of this article, the principles of law and equity, including the law merchant and the law relating to principal and agent, estoppel, laches, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, insolvency, or other validating or invalidating cause, supplement its provisions.

## History

Code 1981, § 18-2-80, enacted by Ga. L. 2002, p. 141, § 3; Code 1981, § 18-2-82, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2015, p. 996, § 4A-1/SB 65.