Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 5. ACQUISITION AND LOSS OF PROPERTY · Article 4. GIFTS GENERALLY · Part 1. Inter Vivos Gifts

44-5-83. Written gift.

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A gift in writing, without good consideration and without delivery, is void. However, when, in order for a gift to be valid, a written conveyance for good consideration is required by law, or when in any case a written conveyance is made for a good consideration, the execution and delivery of such conveyance shall dispense with the necessity of delivering the article given.

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, § 2616; Code 1868, § 2617; Code 1873, § 2659; Code 1882, § 2659; Civil Code 1895, § 3566; Civil Code 1910, § 4146; Code 1933, § 48-104.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to § 28-9-5, in 1991, ‘‘dispense’’ was substituted for ‘‘disperse’’ near the end of the second sentence.

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