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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 5. ACQUISITION AND LOSS OF PROPERTY · Article 1. GRANTS FROM STATE

44-5-11. Grounds for setting aside grants.

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

  1. Upon a writ of scire facias, grants issued by the state may be set aside by the superior court of the county where the land is located on the ground:

  2. (1)

    That they were obtained by fraud or willful misrepresentations to the officers of the state by the grantee or those in privity with him;#

  3. (2)

    Of collusion between the grantee and the officers of the state; or#

  4. (3)

    Of fraud, accident, or mistake by the officers of the state, which fraud, accident, or mistake was known to the grantee.#

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, § 2332; Code 1868, § 2329; Code 1873, § 2360; Code 1882, § 2360; Civil Code 1895, § 3219; Civil Code 1910, § 3807; Code 1933, § 85-310.

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

Text read from t44-ch1-7-(v31)-2010-pdf.pdf, Volume V31, 2010 edition, page 382; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 490191d3dc54.