O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 23-1-21 (2019)

Compulsion to litigate

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

History

Civil Code 1895, § 3935; Civil Code 1910, § 4532; Code 1933, § 37-118. History of Code section. - This Code

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).

Annotations

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.