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O.C.G.A. § 23-1-21 — Compulsion to litigate | Georgia Code

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TITLE 23 EQUITY

Section 1. General Provisions, 23-1-1 through 23-1-25.

23-1-21. Compulsion to litigate.

Equity will not force persons to litigate in order to have done what they ought to do and are willing to do voluntarily.

(Civil Code 1895, § 3935; Civil Code 1910, § 4532; Code 1933, § 37-118.)

History of section.

- This section is derived from the decisions in Sperry & Niles v. Haslam, 57 Ga. 412 (1876) and Blalock v. Newhill, 78 Ga. 245, 1 S.E. 383 (1887).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Rowe v. Cole, 176 Ga. 592, 168 S.E. 882 (1933); Robertson v. Webster, 79 Ga. App. 30, 52 S.E.2d 511 (1949); Bell v. Fine Prods. Co., 139 Ga. App. 878, 229 S.E.2d 808 (1976).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 27 Am. Jur. 2d, Equity, § 15.

ALR.

- Mistake in lease as ground for relief, 26 A.L.R. 472.

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