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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

44-6-87. Effect of purported sale of estate by life tenant.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. No forfeiture shall result when a tenant for life purports to sell the entire estate in lands. In such a case, the purchaser shall acquire only the interest of the life tenant.

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, § 2242; Code 1868, § 2234; Code 1873, § 2260; Code 1882, § 2260; Civil Code 1895, § 3095; Civil Code 1910, § 3671; Code 1933, § 85-609.

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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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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t44-ch1-7-(v31)-2010-pdf.pdf, Volume V31, 2010 edition, page 677; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 490191d3dc54.