Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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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Equity jurisdiction over matters of account shall extend to:
(1)
Mutual accounts growing out of privity of contract;#
(2)
Cases where accounts are complicated and intricate;#
(3)
Cases where a discovery or writ of ne exeat is prayed and granted;#
(4)
Cases where the account is of a trust fund;#
(5)
Accounts between partners or tenants in common; and#
(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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