O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 13-5-2 (2019)
Incapacity generally
✓ 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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A person may plead his own incapacity to contract.
History
(Orig. Code 1863, § 2698; Code 1868, § 2694; Code 1873, § 2736; Code 1882, § 2736; Civil Code 1895, § 3653; Civil Code 1910, § 4238; Code 1933, § 20-208.)
Annotations
JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in DOT v. Arapaho Constr., Inc., 180 Ga. App. 341, 349 S.E.2d 196 (1986). RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 41 Am. Jur. 2d, Incompetent Persons, §§ 28, 68, 95, 99, 127.
C.J.S. - 17A C.J.S., Contracts, § 674 et seq. 44 C.J.S., Insane Persons, § 148.