Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

9-3-32. Accrual of actions for recovery of personal property or loss of timber; damages for conversion or destruction.

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

Actions for the recovery of personal property, or for damages for the conversion or destruction of the same, shall be brought within four years after the right of action accrues, and actions involving the unauthorized cutting or cutting and carrying away of timber from the property of another shall be brought within four years after the cutting or cutting and carrying away of timber.

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.

Ga. L. 1855-56, p. 233, § 2; Code 1933, § 3-1003; Ga. L. 2014, p. 695, § 1/HB 790.

Tort action for third party timber harvester, § 51-11-10.

History of Section.: The language in this Code section is derived in part from the decisions in Blocker v. Boswell, 109 Ga. 230, 34 S.E. 289 (1899), and Hicks v. Moyer, 10 Ga. App. 488, 73 S.E. 754 (1912).

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