Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

44-12-65. Effect of breach of contract; action for conversion by bailor.

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If either party violates the terms of the hiring, the other party may abandon the contract. If the hirer puts the thing to a different use than is specified in the contract, the bailor may bring an action as for a conversion even if the hirer is a minor.

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, § 2061; Code 1868, § 2064; Code 1873, § 2090; Code 1882, § 2090; Civil Code 1895, § 2908; Civil Code 1910, § 3481; Code 1933, § 12-206.

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