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title: O.C.G.A. § 9-3-25. Open accounts; breach of certain contracts; implied promise; exception.
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# O.C.G.A. § 9-3-25. Open accounts; breach of certain contracts; implied promise; exception.

All actions upon open account, or for the breach of any contract not under the hand of the party sought to be charged, or upon any implied promise or undertaking shall be brought within four years after the right of action accrues. 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.

## History

Laws 1809, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 566.; Ga. L. 1855-56, p. 233, § 10; Code 1863, § 2859; Code 1868, § 2867; Code 1873, § 2918; Code 1882, § 2918; Civil Code 1895, § 3768; Civil Code 1910, § 4362; Code 1933, § 3-706; Ga. L. 1962, p. 156, § 1.

## Law Reviews

For survey article on construction law, see 60 Mercer L. Rev. 59 (2008).

For annual survey of law on construction law, see 62 Mercer L. Rev. 71 (2010).

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).

For annual survey on real property law, see 70 Mercer L. Rev. 209 (2018).