O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 10-1-239 (2019)

Limitation of actions

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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No action shall be brought under Code Section 10-1-235 or Code Section 10-1-238 unless commenced within two years after the cause of action shall have accrued.

History

Ga. L. 1973, p. 438, § 12.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. Effect of fraud to toll the period for bringing action prescribed in statute creating the right of action, 15 A.L.R.2d 500. Validity, and applicability to causes of action not already barred, of a statute enlarging limitation period, 79 A.L.R.2d 1080.

Settlement negotiations as estopping reliance on statute of limitations, 39 A.L.R.3d 127. Fraud as extending statutory limitations period for contesting will or its probate, 48 A.L.R.4th 1094.