Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

44-5-171. Effect of intervening disabilities; tacking.

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Prescription shall not run against persons under disability during the period of the disability. Upon removal of the disability the prior possession may be tacked or added to the subsequent possession to make out the prescription.

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, § 2646; Code 1868, § 2645; Code 1873, § 2687; Code 1882, § 2687; Civil Code 1895, § 3594; Civil Code 1910, § 4174; Code 1933, § 85-412.

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Text read from t44-ch1-7-(v31)-2010-pdf.pdf, Volume V31, 2010 edition, page 572; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 490191d3dc54.