Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 12. RIGHTS IN PERSONALTY · Article 3. BAILMENTS · Part 1. IN GENERAL

44-12-43. Care required of bailees.

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All bailees are required to exercise care and diligence to protect the thing bailed and to keep it safe. Different degrees of diligence are required according to the nature of the bailments.

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, § 2033; Code 1868, § 2034; Code 1873, § 2060; Code 1882, § 2060; Civil Code 1895, § 2897; Civil-Code 1910, § 3470; Code 1933, § 12-103.

Cross references

Risk of loss in the absence of breach, § 11-2-509.

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