23-1-21. Compulsion to litigate.

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

Equity will not force persons to litigate in order to have done what they ought to do and are willing to do voluntarily.

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.

Civil Code 1895, § 3935; Civil Code 1910, § 4532; Code 1933, § 37-118.

History of Code section.: This Code section is derived from the decisions in Sperry & Niles v. Haslam, 57 Ga. 412 (1876) and Blalock v. Newhill, 78 Ga. 245, 1 S.E. 383 (1887).

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