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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 9. EASEMENTS · Article 3. PRIVATE WAYS

44-9-54. Establishment of private way by prescription.

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  1. Whenever a private way has been in constant and uninterrupted use for seven or more years and no legal steps have been taken to abolish it, it shall not be lawful for anyone to interfere with that private way.

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

Ga. L. 1872, p. 60, § 1; Code 1873, § 737; Code 1882, § 737; Civil Code 1895, § 678; Civil Code 1910, § 824; Code 1933, § 83-112.

Cross references

Acquisition and loss of property through adverse possession generally, § 44-5-160 et seq.

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