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title: O.C.G.A. § 9-3-32. Accrual of actions for recovery of personal property or loss of timber; damages for conversion or destruction.
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# O.C.G.A. § 9-3-32. Accrual of actions for recovery of personal property or loss of timber; damages for conversion or destruction.

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.

## History

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

## Cross References

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).