Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 33. INSURANCE · Chapter 7. KINDS OF INSURANCE; LIMITS OF RISKS; REINSURANCE

33-7-8. Title insurance.

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Title insurance is insurance of owners of real or personal property or others having an interest in such real or personal property, or liens or encumbrances on such real or personal property, against loss by encumbrance, defective titles, invalidity, adverse claim to title, or unmarketability of title by reason of encumbrance or defects not excepted in the insurance contract, which contract shall be written only upon evidence or opinion of title obtained and preserved by the insurer.

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

Code 1933, § 56-410, enacted by Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1; Ga. L. 2019, p. 901, § 1/SB 202. The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, inserted ‘‘or personal’’ in three places in this Code section.

Cross references

Effect on title insurance companies of laws relating to regulation of practice of law, §§ 15-19-52, 15-19-53. Recordation and registration of deeds and other instruments, T. 44, C. 2.

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