51-12-3. Direct and consequential damages distinguished.

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(a)
Direct damages are those which follow immediately upon the doing of a tortious act.#
(b)
Consequential damages are those which are the necessary and connected effect of a tortious act, even though they are to some extent dependent upon other circumstances.#

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History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3003; Code 1868, § 3016; Code 1873, § 3071; Code 1882, § 3071; Civil Code 1895, § 3911; Civil Code 1910, § 4508; Code 1933, § 105-2007.

Law reviews

For article, ‘‘Jury Instructions and Proximate Cause: An Uncertain Trumpet in Georgia,’’ see 27 Ga. St. B. J. 60 (1990).

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