Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 11. EJECTMENT AND PROCEEDINGS AGAINST INTRUDERS · Article 1. EJECTMENT

44-11-4. Joint action against separate claimants; when prohibited.

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When several persons claim several parcels of land under distinct titles and do not sustain to each other the relationship of landlord and tenant, a joint action of ejectment may not be maintained against them nor may a joint or several recovery be had in such action either for the premises or for mesne profits.

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, § 3272; Code 1868, § 3283; Code 1873, § 3359; Code 1882, § 3359; Civil Code 1895, § 5000; Civil Code 1910, § 5578; Code 1933, § 33-113.

Other notes

History of Section.: This Code section is derived from the decision in Wood v. Milly McGuire’s Children, 17 Ga. 303 (1855); Ivey v. Cowart, 124 Ga. 159, 52 S.E. 436, 110 Am. St. R. 160 (1905).

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