Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 3. LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS · Article 2. SPECIFIC PERIODS OF LIMITATION

9-3-23. Sealed instruments.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Actions upon bonds or other instruments under seal shall be brought within 20 years after the right of action has accrued. No instrument shall be considered under seal unless so recited in the body of the instrument.

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

Laws 1806, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 566.; Ga. L. 1855-56, p. 233, § 11; Code 1863, § 2856; Code 1868, § 2864; Code 1873, § 2915; Code 1882, § 2915; Civil Code 1895, § 3765; Civil Code 1910, § 4359; Code 1933, § 3-703.

Law reviews

For comment on Baxley Hdwe. Co. v. Morris, 165 Ga. 359, 140 S.E. 869 (1927), see 1 Ga. B.J. 51 (1927). For article surveying Real Property law in 1984-1985, see 37 Mercer L. Rev. 343 (1985). For article, “Construction Law,” see 63 Mercer L. Rev. 107 (2011).

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