Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 3. LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

9-3-7. When mutual accounts postpone running of limitations.

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The statute of limitations for a mutual account begins to run on the date of the last item thereof. A mutual account must include an indebtedness on both sides. Mere entries of credits of partial payments shall not be sufficient.

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.

Civil Code 1895, § 3769; Civil Code 1910, § 4363; Code 1933, § 3-707.

History of Section.: This Code section is derived from the decision in Lark v. Cheatham, 80 Ga. 1, 5 S.E. 290 (1888).

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