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

O.C.G.A. § 23-1-9 (2019)

Nature of equity is equality

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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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In many cases, equality is equity in the distribution of equitable assets.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3023; Code 1868, § 3035; Code 1873, § 3090; Code 1882, § 3090; Civil Code 1895, § 3930; Civil Code 1910, § 4527; Code 1933, § 37-110.

Annotations

Law reviews. - For note, ‘‘Georgia Becomes A Quasi Community Property State,’’ see 17 Ga. St. B.J. 134 (1981).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Trust Co. v. Kenny, 188 Ga. 243, 3 S.E.2d 553 (1939). RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 27 Am. Jur. 2d, Equity, § 125.

C.J.S. - 30 C.J.S., Equity, § 109.