Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

23-2-74. Burden of distinguishing mingled property.

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

If a party who has charge of the property of others shall so confound it with his own that the line of distinction cannot be drawn, all the inconvenience shall be thrown upon him who causes the confusion; and he shall distinguish his own property or lose it.

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, § 3064; Code 1868, § 3076; Code 1873, § 3131; Code 1882, § 3131; Civil Code 1895, § 3990; Civil Code 1910, § 4587; Code 1933, § 37-302.

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