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O.C.G.A. § 19-3-4 (2019)

Nature of consent required

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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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To constitute an actual contract of marriage, the parties must consent thereto voluntarily without any fraud practiced upon either. Drunkenness at the time of marriage, brought about by art or contrivance to induce consent shall be held as fraud.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 1656; Code 1868, § 1700; Code 1873, § 1701; Code 1882,

§ 1701; Civil Code 1895, § 2414; Civil Code 1910, § 2933; Code 1933, § 53-103.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Granting divorce on ground of duress amounts to finding that no actual contract of marriage ever existed. York v.

York, 202 Ga. 50, 41 S.E.2d 877, 1947 Ga. LEXIS 348 (1947).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 52 Am. Jur. 2d, Marriage, §§ 21, 26 et seq. Am. Jur. Pleading and Practice Forms. 1D Am. Jur. Pleading and Practice

Forms, Annulment of Marriage, §§ 28, 41, 54. C.J.S. 55 C.J.S., Marriage, §§ 12, 18, 34. ALR. Marriage to which consent of one of

parties was obtained by duress as void or only voidable, 91 A.L.R. 414. Concealment or misrepresentation re-

lating to religion as ground for annulment, 44 A.L.R.3d 972.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2005–2021 · leading case: Russell v. Sparmer, 793 S.E.2d 501 (Ga. Ct. App. 2016).
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Russell v. Sparmer, 793 S.E.2d 501 (Ga. Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 2× “300, 301-302 ( 215 SE2d 671 ) (1975) (explaining that an “actual contract” for purposes of the marriage statute requires “a present intent to marry”); OCGA § 19-3-4 (“[t]o constitute an actual contract of marriage, the parties must consent thereto voluntarily without any fraud…”
Mayo v. Mayo, 617 S.E.2d 672 (N.C. Ct. App. 2005). “” Ga. Code Ann. § 19-3-4 (2004). “Marriages of persons .”
Xing Chen v. Zhi Chen, 866 S.E.2d 635 (Ga. Ct. App. 2021). · cites it 2× “” OCGA § 19-3-4. We look to whether “the parties consented to marry each other and possessed a present intention to be married to each other.”
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