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title: O.C.G.A. § 9-3-112. Payment or written acknowledgment equivalent to new promise.
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# O.C.G.A. § 9-3-112. Payment or written acknowledgment equivalent to new promise.

A payment entered upon a written evidence of debt by the debtor or upon any other written acknowledgment of the existing liability shall be equivalent to a new promise to pay.

## History

Orig. Code 1863, § 2876; Code 1868, § 2884; Code 1873, § 2935; Code 1882, § 2935; Civil Code 1895, § 3789; Civil Code 1910, § 4385; Code 1933, § 3-903.

## Cross References

For provision of statute of frauds relating to promise to revive debt barred by statute of limitations, § 13-5-30(6).