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2018 Georgia Code 18-2-82 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 18 DEBTOR AND CREDITOR

Section 2. Debtor and Creditor Relations, 18-2-1 through 18-2-85.

ARTICLE 4 UNIFORM VOIDABLE TRANSACTIONS ACT

18-2-82. Applicability of principles of law and equity.

Unless displaced by the provisions of this article, the principles of law and equity, including the law merchant and the law relating to principal and agent, estoppel, laches, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, insolvency, or other validating or invalidating cause, supplement its provisions.

(Code 1981, §18-2-80, enacted by Ga. L. 2002, p. 141, § 3; Code 1981, §18-2-82, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2015, p. 996, § 4A-1/SB 65.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Damages available.

- Georgia law allowing the recovery of general and punitive damages for fraudulent conveyances survived the enactment of Georgia's Uniform Fraudulent Transfers Act, O.C.G.A. § 18-2-70 et seq. Interfinancial Midtown, Inc. v. Choate Constr. Co., 343 Ga. App. 793, 806 S.E.2d 255 (2017).

Cited in Bishop v. Patton, 288 Ga. 600, 706 S.E.2d 634 (2011).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 37 Am. Jur. 2d, Fraudulent Conveyances and Transfers, § 152 et seq.

C.J.S.

- 37 C.J.S., Fraudulent Conveyances, § 170 et seq.

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