O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 24-11-25 (2019)

Establishment of lost or destroyed paper

✓ 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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When a rule nisi has been served as provided in Code Section 24-11-23, the court shall grant a rule absolute establishing the duplicate of the lost or destroyed paper sworn to, unless good and sufficient cause is shown why the rule absolute should not be granted.

History

Code 1981, § 24-11-25, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Editor’s notes. - In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under former Civil Code 1910, § 5316 are included in the annotations for this Code section. Judgment conclusive. - Judgment

establishing a copy of a deed was conclusive, and evidence of nondelivery of the original was excluded. Graham v. Graham, 137 Ga. 668, 74 S.E. 426, 1912 Ga. LEXIS 121 (1912) (decided under former Civil Code 1910, § 5316).