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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

23-2-25. Form of conveyance contrary to intent.

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

  1. If the form of conveyance is, by accident or mistake, contrary to the intention of the parties in their contract, equity shall interfere to make it conform thereto.

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, § 3047; Code 1868, § 3059; Code 1873, § 3114; Code 1882, § 3114; Civil Code 1895, § 3970; Civil Code 1910, § 4567; Code 1933, § 37-215.

Law reviews

For comment advocating principle that grantee may obtain reformation of deed of gift over opposition of heirs of grantor, see 25 Ga. B.J. 445 (1963).

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Text read from t22-t23-(v19)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V19, 2020 edition, page 317; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 b3cf4ff62f2f.