O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 23-1-13 (2019)

Volunteer’s equity inferior

✓ 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 equity under trust or contract for value is superior to that of a mere volunteer.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3021; Code 1868, § 3033; Code 1873, § 3088; Code 1882, § 3088; Civil Code 1895,

§ 3928; Civil Code 1910, § 4525; Code 1933, § 37-108.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS A donee claiming land under a deed of gift stands in the shoes of the donee’s grantor. Hughes v. Cobb, 195 Ga. 213, 23 S.E.2d 701 (1942).

Cited in Payton v. Payton, 148 Ga. 486, 97 S.E. 69 (1918); Cain v. Varnadore, 171 Ga. 497, 156 S.E. 216 (1930).

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 30 C.J.S., Equity, § 89. ALR. - Relaxation of common-law rule regarding recovery of voluntary payment, 75 A.L.R. 658.

Right to reformation of contract or instrument as affected by intervening rights of third persons, 79 A.L.R.2d 1180.