Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

44-5-174. Tacking of prior possession originating in fraud.

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In making out a prescriptive title, an innocent purchaser may not tack to the time period of his own possession the time of possession of a grantor whose possession originated through fraud against the true owner.

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.

Civil Code 1895, § 3596; Civil Code 1910, § 4176; Code 1933, § 85-415.

History of Code section.: This Code section is derived from the decision in Far-row v. Bullock, 63 Ga. 360 (1879).

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