Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

44-5-39. Binding effect of covenants on grantee who accepts deed.

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When a grantee accepts a deed, he is bound by the covenants contained therein even though the deed has not been signed by him.

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

Civil Code 1895, § 3600; Civil Code 1910, § 4180; Code 1933, § 29-102; Ga. L. 1967, p. 592, § 1.

Law reviews

For article, ‘‘Condominium and Home Owner Associations: Formation and Development,’’ see 24 Emory L.J. 977 (1975). For article surveying recent legislative and judicial developments in Georgia’s real property laws, see 31 Mercer L. Rev. 187 (1979). For comment on Phillips v. Naff, 332 Mich. 389, 52 N.W.2d 158 (1952), see 15 Ga. B.J. 71 (1952).

Other notes

History of Code section.: This Code section is derived from the decision in Georgia S.R.R. v. Reeves, 64 Ga. 492 (1879).

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