Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 2. ACTIONS GENERALLY · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

9-2-7. Implied promise to pay for services or property.

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Ordinarily, when one renders service or transfers property which is valuable to another, which the latter accepts, a promise is implied to pay the reasonable value thereof. However, this presumption does not usually arise in cases between very near relatives.

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

Civil Code 1895, § 4936; Civil Code 1910, § 5513; Code 1933, § 3-107.

Law reviews

For comment on Cooper v. Cooper, 59 Ga. App. 832, 2 S.E.2d 145 (1939), see 2 Ga. B.J. 41 (1939). For comment advocating liberal construction of indefinite employment contract, in light of Gray v. Aiken, 205 Ga. 649, 54 S.E.2d 587 (1949), see 1 Mercer L. Rev. 304 (1950). For article discussing quantum meruit actions by attorneys against clients, see 16 Ga. St. B.J. 150 (1980). For note, the voluntary-payment doctrine in Georgia, see 16 Ga. L. Rev. 893 (1982).

Other notes

History of Section.: This Code section is derived from the decision in Hudson v. Hudson, 90 Ga. 581, 16 S. E. 349 (1892).

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