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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

44-5-12. Impeachment of grants; grounds; effect of irregularities or misnomer.

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

  1. Grants may be impeached before the courts where they are:

  2. (1)

    Void upon their face;#

  3. (2)

    Issued without authority of law or against a prohibition in a law; or#

  4. (3)

    Issued for property to which the state had no title.#

  5. However, mere irregularities in the proceedings to obtain grants shall not be inquired into nor may a mistake in the name of the grantee be proved by parol.

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

Ga. L. 1857, p. 58, § 1; Code 1863, § 2333; Code 1868, § 2330; Code 1873, § 2361; Code 1882, § 2361; Civil Code 1895, § 3220; Civil Code 1910, § 3808; Code 1933, § 85-311.

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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, pages 382 to 383; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 490191d3dc54.