Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

44-5-163. When adverse possession for 20 years confers title.

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

Possession of real property in conformance with the requirements of Code Section 44-5-161 for a period of 20 years shall confer good title by prescription to the property against everyone except the state and those persons laboring under the disabilities stated in Code Section 44-5-170.

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 1767, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 560; Code 1863, § 2641; Code 1868, § 2640; Code 1873, § 2682; Code 1882, § 2682; Civil Code 1895, § 3588; Civil Code 1910, § 4168; Code 1933, § 85-406.

Cross references

Surveying and marking boundary lines of property possessed under claim of right for more than seven years, § 44-4-7. Presumption of grant from state upon 20 years’ possession of land under claim of right, § 44-5-14.

Law reviews

For article, ‘‘Some Aspects of the Law of Easements,’’ see 9 Ga. St. B.J. 287 (1973). For annual survey of real property law, see 57 Mercer L. Rev. 331 (2005). For survey article on local government law, see 59 Mercer L. Rev. 285 (2007).

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Text read from t44-ch1-7-(v31)-2010-pdf.pdf, Volume V31, 2010 edition, page 534; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 490191d3dc54.