Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

23-2-23. Mistake of law in instrument by agent.

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A mistake of law by the draftsman or other agent, by which the contract, as executed, does not fulfill or violates the manifest intention of the parties to the agreement, 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, § 3056; Code 1868, § 3068; Code 1873, § 3123; Code 1882, § 3123; Civil Code 1895, § 3980; Civil Code 1910, § 4577; Code 1933, § 37-205.

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