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title: O.C.G.A. § 44-6-85. When life tenant entitled to emblements.
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# O.C.G.A. § 44-6-85. When life tenant entitled to emblements.

If a life estate is terminated by the act of someone other than the tenant for life, the tenant and his legal representative shall be entitled to emblements, which are the profits of the crop sowed by him during life, whether the plants are annual or perennial.

## History

Orig. Code 1863, § 2237; Code 1868, § 2231; Code 1873, § 2257; Code 1882, § 2257; Civil Code 1895, § 3092; Civil Code 1910, § 3668; Code 1933, § 85-606.