Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 12. RIGHTS IN PERSONALTY · Article 2. CHOSES IN ACTION

44-12-21. Rights and remedies to enforce choses in action.

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For every violation of an express or implied contract and for every injury done by another to one’s person or property, the law gives a right to recover and a remedy to enforce it. The right is a chose in action, and the remedy is an action at law.

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, § 2223; Code 1868, § 2217; Code 1873, § 2243; Code 1882, § 2243; Civil Code 1895, § 3076; Civil Code 1910, § 3652; Code 1933, § 85-1802.

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