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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

44-12-64. Duty to return property; assumption of risks; time of return.

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

  1. The contract of hire may call for the return of the thing or of like property of the same kind and quality. If the return of the thing is specified, the risk of death or inevitable accident is with the bailor and he can retake possession immediately at the expiration of the time of hiring. If the return of like property of the same kind and quality is specified, the risk is with the bailee and he must redeliver the thing hired before the bailor’s interest is revested.

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, § 2058; Code 1868, § 2061; Code 1873, § 2087; Code 1882, § 2087; Civil Code 1895, § 2905; Civil Code 1910, § 3478; Code 1933, § 12-205.

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