Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

44-5-175. Prescription involving incorporeal rights.

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An incorporeal right which may be lawfully granted, such as a right of way or the right to throw water upon the land of another, may be acquired by 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.

Civil Code 1895, § 3590; Civil Code 1910, § 4170; Code 1933, § 85-409.

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

History of Code section.: This Code section is derived from the decisions in Phinizy v. City Council, 47 Ga. 260 (1872), and Mitchell v. Mayor of Rome, 49 Ga. 260 (1872).

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