O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 10-7-26 (2019)

Promise to pay in ignorance of discharge

✓ 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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If by an act of the creditor the surety is discharged and in ignorance of the fact of the discharge the surety promises to pay, the promise shall not be binding.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 2136; Code 1868, § 2131; Code 1873, § 2158; Code 1882,

§ 2158; Civil Code 1895, § 2976; Civil Code 1910, § 3548; Code 1933, § 103-207.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS This section applies when there is discharge. Langston v. Aderhold, 60 Ga. 376, 1878 Ga. LEXIS 475 (1878). New promise by surety not binding if discharge not known. - If an endorser being discharged for want of notice of nonpayment promises to pay, making the promise in ignorance of the endorser’s legal rights, the endorser will

not be bound. Langston v. Aderhold, 60 Ga. 376, 1878 Ga. LEXIS 475 (1878). A new promise to pay the obligation, made by a surety in ignorance of the fact that the surety has been released and discharged, is not binding. Crandall v. Shepard, 166 Ga. 889, 144 S.E. 772, 1928 Ga. LEXIS 428 (1928).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 74 Am. Jur. 2d, Suretyship, § 43.