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Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 3. LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS · Article 5. TOLLING OF LIMITATIONS

9-3-92. Five-year tolling for unrepresented estate — In favor of estate.

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

  1. The time between the death of a person and the commencement of representation upon his estate or between the termination of one administration and the commencement of another shall not be counted against his estate in calculating any limitation applicable to the bringing of an action, provided that such time shall not exceed five years. At the expiration of the five years the limitation shall commence, even if the cause of action accrued after the person’s death.

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

Ga. L. 1855-56, p. 235, §§ 21, 40; Code 1863, § 2869; Code 1868, § 2877; Code 1873, § 2928; Code 1882, § 2928; Civil Code 1895, § 3781; Civil Code 1910, § 4376; Code 1933, § 3-803.

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