Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 23. EQUITY · Chapter 2. GROUNDS FOR EQUITABLE RELIEF · Article 2. ACCIDENT AND MISTAKE

23-2-22. Mistake of law in instrument by contracting parties.

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An honest mistake of the law as to the effect of an instrument on the part of both contracting parties, when the mistake operates as a gross injustice to one and gives an unconscionable advantage to the other, may be relieved in equity.

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, § 3055; Code 1868, § 3067; Code 1873, § 3122; Code 1882, § 3122; Civil Code 1895, § 3979; Civil Code 1910, § 4576; Code 1933, § 37-204.

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