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title: Title 44, Chapter 1. General Provisions
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date: 2025
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heading: GENERAL PROVISIONS
title_heading: PROPERTY
section_count: 18
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# Title 44, Chapter 1. General Provisions

Title 44. Property

18 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 44-1-1, ‘‘Property’’ defined, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-1.md
- 44-1-2, ‘‘Realty’’ or ‘‘real estate’’ defined; extent of owner’s interest in airspace, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-2.md
- 44-1-3, ‘‘Personalty’’ defined; status of certain stocks, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-3.md
- 44-1-4, ‘‘Estate’’ defined, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-4.md
- 44-1-5, ‘‘Title’’ defined, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-5.md
- 44-1-6, What things considered fixtures; movable machinery as personalty; effect of detachment from realty, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-6.md
- 44-1-7, Possession of personalty, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-7.md
- 44-1-8, Property rights in animals; factors establishing property in wild animals, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-8.md
- 44-1-9, Ownership of deposit and offspring by wild animals on land, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-9.md
- 44-1-10, Ownership of offspring of domestic or owned animals, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-10.md
- 44-1-11, Application and construction of provisions relating to estates, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-11.md
- 44-1-12, What constitutes perfect title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-12.md
- 44-1-13, Removal or immobilization of trespassing cars or personal property; concurrent jurisdiction; procedure; automatic surveillance prohibited; penalty, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-13.md
- 44-1-14, Abatement of hazard from abandoned well or hole; recovery costs; use of county funds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-14.md
- 44-1-15, Removal or destruction of survey monuments prohibited; exceptions; penalties, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-15.md
- 44-1-16, Failure to disclose in real estate transaction that property was occupied by diseased person or was site of death; failure to disclose information required to be provided or maintained in accordance with Code Section 44-9-44.1, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-16.md
- 44-1-17, Responsibilities of buyers or grantees and grantors or owners relating to transfers of property within or adjacent to property zoned for agricultural or silvicultural use; notice to prospective purchaser, lessee, or grantee; effect of noncompliance, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-17.md
- 44-1-18, Execution search prior to conveyance of property; certificate of clearance required; requirements for requests; binding effect; timing of information release; failure to comply; retention; criminal penalties; exceptions; requirements for certificate; regulatory authority, reserved (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-1-18.md