Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 5. ACQUISITION AND LOSS OF PROPERTY · Article 7. PRESCRIPTION

44-5-160. Nature of title by prescription.

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Title by prescription is the right to property which a possessor acquires by reason of the continuance of his possession for a period of time fixed by law.

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, § 2637; Code 1868, § 2636; Code 1873, § 2678; Code 1882, § 2678; Civil Code 1895, § 3583; Civil Code 1910, § 4163; Code 1933, § 85-401.

Law reviews

For article, ‘‘Some Aspects of the Law of Easements,’’ see 9 Ga. St. B.J. 287 (1973).

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