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Title 23. EQUITY · Chapter 2. GROUNDS FOR EQUITABLE RELIEF · Article 4. ACCOUNTING OF CONTRIBUTION; APPORTIONMENT; SETOFF

23-2-70. Scope of equity jurisdiction over matters of account.

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

  1. Equity jurisdiction over matters of account shall extend to:

  2. (1)

    Mutual accounts growing out of privity of contract;#

  3. (2)

    Cases where accounts are complicated and intricate;#

  4. (3)

    Cases where a discovery or writ of ne exeat is prayed and granted;#

  5. (4)

    Cases where the account is of a trust fund;#

  6. (5)

    Accounts between partners or tenants in common; and#

  7. (6)

    Cases where a multiplicity of actions would render a trial difficult, expensive, and unsatisfactory at law.#

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, § 3063; Code 1868, § 3075; Code 1873, § 3130; Code 1882, § 3130; Civil Code 1895, § 3989; Civil Code 1910, § 4586; Code 1933, § 37-301.

Law reviews

For article, ‘‘Some Problems in Providing for Nonjudicial Settlement of the Trustee’s Accounts,’’ see 3 Ga. St. B.J. 417 (1967).

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

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