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

44-6-89. Removal of personalty beyond state by life tenant; forfeiture; restraint.

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  1. The tenant for life in personalty shall not remove such personalty outside this state without the consent of the remainderman. If the tenant for life fraudulently attempts to remove the personalty, he shall forfeit his interest therein; if he attempts to do so without fraud, the remainderman or reversioner shall be entitled to the writ of ne exeat to restrain him.

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

Laws 1830, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 527; Code 1863, § 2243; Code 1868, § 2235; Code 1873, § 2261; Code 1882, § 2261; Civil Code 1895, § 3096; Civil Code 1910, § 3672; Code 1933, § 85-1708.

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