44-6-80. Nature of life estates; estates during widowhood.

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Estates which may extend during the life of a person but which must terminate at his death are deemed life estates during their existence. Estates during widowhood are life estates.

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, § 2234; Code 1868, § 2228; Code 1873, § 2254; Code 1882, § 2254; Civil Code 1895, § 3089; Civil Code 1910, § 3665; Code 1933, § 85-603.

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For comment on Eller v. Wages, 220 Ga. 58, 136 S.E.2d 730 (1964), see 1 Ga. St. B.J. 557 (1965).

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