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O.C.G.A. § 23-2-73 — Discharge of encumbrances affecting several interests | Georgia Code

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TITLE 23 EQUITY

Section 2. Grounds for Equitable Relief, 23-2-1 through 23-2-136.

ARTICLE 4 ACCOUNTING OF CONTRIBUTION; APPORTIONMENT; SETOFF

23-2-73. Discharge of encumbrances affecting several interests.

Where several persons are interested in an estate as tenants for years, or for life, or in remainder or reversion, and encumbrances are to be discharged, the equitable division of the burden, according to the several interests, shall be a question for equitable interference.

(Orig. Code 1863, § 3066; Code 1868, § 3078; Code 1873, § 3133; Code 1882, § 3133; Civil Code 1895, § 3992; Civil Code 1910, § 4589; Code 1933, § 37-304.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Williams & Bessinger v. Foy Mfg. Co., 111 Ga. 856, 36 S.E. 927 (1900).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S.

- 30 C.J.S., Equity, § 60.

ALR.

- Right to contribution from remainderman, of life tenant who pays off encumbrance on property, 87 A.L.R. 220.

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