---
title: O.C.G.A. § 36-7-12. Surveys or plats deemed presumptive evidence of facts.
collection: code
id: 36-7-12
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 36-7-12 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/36-7-12
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/36-7-12.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/36-7-12/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t35-t36-ch1-59-(v27)-2025-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=66569db4_0#page=425
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/36-7.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/36-7-11.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/36-7-13.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia
heading_path: LOCAL GOVERNMENT / Provisions Applicable to Counties Only / COUNTY SURVEYOR
---

# O.C.G.A. § 36-7-12. Surveys or plats deemed presumptive evidence of facts.

Surveys or plats of lands within his county, made by the county surveyor under order of court and on notice to all the parties, signed by him officially, and stating the contents, courses, and distances of any land surveyed by him are presumptive evidence of the facts if all the requisites of the law touching such surveys and the reports thereof are complied with.

## History

Orig. Code 1863, § 555; Code 1868, § 619; Code 1873, § 578; Code 1882, § 578; Civil Code 1895, § 484; Civil Code 1910, § 602; Code 1933, § 23-1112.