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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 6. ESTATES · Article 5. LIFE ESTATES

44-6-84. Ownership of increase of property.

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  1. The natural increase of the property shall belong to the tenant for life. Any extraordinary accumulation of the corpus, such as an issue of new stock upon the share of a corporation, shall attach to the corpus and go with it to the remainderman.

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, § 2236; Code 1868, § 2230; Code 1873, § 2256; Code 1882, § 2256; Civil Code 1895, § 3091; Civil Code 1910, § 3667; Code 1933, § 85-605.

Law reviews

For note, ‘‘Determining Principal and Income Allocation in Georgia Trusts,’’ see 8 Ga. St. B.J. 564 (1972).

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