Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 51. TORTS · Chapter 11. DEFENSES TO TORT ACTIONS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

51-11-3. Extenuation and mitigation of damages.

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Circumstances not amounting to justification may be pleaded in extenuation and mitigation of damages.

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, § 2984; Code 1868, § 2997; Code 1873, § 3052; Code 1882, § 3052; Civil Code 1895, § 3892; Civil Code 1910, § 4489; Code 1933, § 105-1802.

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