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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

44-12-63. Obligations of bailor.

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

  1. The obligations of the bailor of things are:

  2. (1)

    To do no act to deprive the hirer of the use and enjoyment of the chattel during the period of the bailment;#

  3. (2)

    To keep the thing in suitable order and repair for the purposes of the bailment; and#

  4. (3)

    To warrant the right of possession and that the thing bailed is free from any secret fault rendering it unfit for the purposes for which it is hired.#

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, § 2059; Code 1868, § 2062; Code 1873, § 2088; Code 1882, § 2088; Civil Code 1895, § 2906; Civil Code 1910, § 3479; Code 1933, § 12-204.

Cross references

Liability of motor vehicle owner for traffic or parking violations occurring while motor vehicle leased to another, § 40-6-207.

Law reviews

For comment on Redfern Meats, Inc. v. Hertz Corp., see 27 Mercer L. Rev. 347 (1975).

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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 210; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 02e72213893a.