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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 12. RIGHTS IN PERSONALTY · Article 3. BAILMENTS · Part 2. HIRING

44-12-62. Duties of hirer; liability for acts of bailor’s agents.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    The duties of the hirer of things are:#

    1. (1)

      To put the thing to no other use than that for which it is hired;#

    2. (2)

      To take ordinary care in its use;#

    3. (3)

      To redeliver the thing at the expiration of the bailment; and#

    4. (4)

      To comply generally with the terms of the hiring.#

  2. (b)

    If the bailor sends his own agents with the thing bailed, the hirer shall not be liable for the acts of such agents but shall only be liable either to the bailor or to third persons for the consequences of his own directions and for gross neglect.#

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, § 2060; Code 1868, § 2063; Code 1873, § 2089; Code 1882, § 2089; Civil Code 1895, § 2907; Civil Code 1910, § 3480; Code 1933, § 12-203.

Cross references

Theft by conversion, § 16-8-4.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t44-ch8-15-(v32)-2022-pdf.pdf, Volume V32, 2022 edition, page 208; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 02e72213893a.