O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 19-3-7 (2019)

Contracts attempting to force marriage void

✓ 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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The policy of the law being opposed equally to restrictions on marriage and to marriages not the result of free choice, all contracts or bonds made to hinder or to force marriage are deemed fraudulent and void.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3113; Code 1868, § 3125; Code 1873, § 3182; Code 1882,

§ 3182; Civil Code 1895, § 2415; Civil Code 1910, § 2934; Code 1933, § 53-108.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 52 Am. Jur. 2d, Marriage, § 120. C.J.S. 17A C.J.S., Contracts, §§ 245, 246. ALR. Validity of contract executed under duress exercised by third person, 62 A.L.R. 1477.

Conditions, conditional limitations, or contracts in restraint of marriage, 122 A.L.R. 7. Recovery for services rendered by persons living in apparent relation of husband and wife without express agreement for compensation, 94 A.L.R.3d 552.