Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

9-3-24. Actions on simple written contracts; exceptions.

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All actions upon simple contracts in writing shall be brought within six years after the same become due and payable. However, this Code section shall not apply to actions for the breach of contracts for the sale of goods under Article 2 of Title 11 or to negotiable instruments under Article 3 of Title 11.

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, § 2858; Code 1868, § 2866; Code 1873, § 2917; Code 1882, § 2917; Civil Code 1895, § 3767; Civil Code 1910, § 4361; Code 1933, § 3-705; Ga. L. 1962, p. 156, § 1; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1306, § 15.

Law reviews

For article surveying recent legislative and judicial developments regarding Georgia’s insurance laws, see 31 Mercer L. Rev. 117 (1979). For article, “Construction Law,” see 53 Mercer L. Rev. 173 (2001). For annual survey of construction law, see 57 Mercer L. Rev. 79 (2005). For annual survey of insurance law, see 57 Mercer L. Rev. 221 (2005). For survey article on construction law, see 60 Mercer L. Rev. 59 (2008). For annual survey on insurance, see 61 Mercer L. Rev. 179 (2009). For annual survey of law on construction law, see 62 Mercer L. Rev. 71 (2010). For annual survey on construction law, see 65 Mercer L. Rev. 67 (2013). For note, “Forty-Eight States are Probably Not Wrong: An Argument for Mod-ernizing Georgia’s Legal Malpractice Statute of Limitations,” see 33 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 805 (2017).

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