Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 5. ACQUISITION AND LOSS OF PROPERTY · Article 2. CONVEYANCES

44-5-36. Purchaser’s remedies for loss of land due to title defect.

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If the purchaser loses part of his land from a defect of title, he may claim according to the relative value of the land so lost either a rescission of the purchase contract or a reduction of the price.

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, § 2599; Code 1868, § 2601; Code 1873, § 2643; Code 1882, § 2643; Civil Code 1895, § 3544; Civil Code 1910, § 4124; Code 1933, § 29-202.

Law reviews

For article surveying developments in Georgia real property law from mid-1980 through mid-1981, see 33 Mercer L. Rev. 219 (1981).

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