Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 14. MORTGAGES, CONVEYANCES TO SECURE DEBT, AND LIENS · Article 2. MORTGAGES

44-14-32. Use of parol evidence to prove apparent deed a mortgage.

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A deed or bill of sale which is absolute on its face and which is accompanied with possession of the property shall not be proved, at the instance of the parties, by parol evidence to be a mortgage only unless fraud in its procurement is the issue to be tried.

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

Laws 1837, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 274; Code 1863, § 3732; Code 1868, § 3756; Code 1873, § 3809; Code 1882, § 3809; Civil Code 1895, § 2725; Civil Code 1910, § 3258; Code 1933, § 67-104.

Law reviews

For comment on Brown v. Carmichael, 149 Ga. 548, 101 S.E. 124 (1919), and Wilkes v. Carter, 149 Ga. 240, 99 S.E. 860 (1919), see 10 Ga. B.J. 338 (1948). For article, “The Parol Evidence Rule in Georgia,” see 17 Ga. B.J. 49 (1954). For article surveying recent legislative and judicial developments in Georgia’s real property laws, see 31 Mercer L. Rev. 187 (1979).

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