Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 24. EVIDENCE · Chapter 14. PROOF GENERALLY · Article 2. PRESUMPTIONS AND ESTOPPEL

24-14-28. Trustees estopped to set up title adverse to trust.

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Trustees and other representatives with custody of papers have ample opportunities to discover defects in the title of property in their care and shall be estopped from setting up title adverse to their trust.

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History

Code 1981, § 24-14-28, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

Other notes

History of Section.: Former Code Section 24-4-26, which contained comparable provisions to this Code section, as effective January 1, 2013, was derived from the decisions in Benja-min v. Gill, 45 Ga. 110 (1872) and Allen v. Solomon, 54 Ga. 483 (1875).

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