O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-12-119 (2019)

How loaned property used; acts considered as conversion

✓ 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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The property loaned must be used strictly for the purpose and in the manner contemplated by the parties. A violation by the borrower is a conversion.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 2113; Code 1868, § 2108; Code 1873, § 2135; Code 1882,

§ 2135; Civil Code 1895, § 2953; Civil Code 1910, § 3525; Code 1933, § 12-510.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Applicability of O.C.G.A. § 44-12-119. - O.C.G.A. § 44-12-119 is applicable to money loaned for a specific purpose.

Fischesser v. Heard, 42 Ga. 531, 1871 Ga. LEXIS 98 (1871).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 8 Am. Jur. 2d, Bailments, § 180 et seq. C.J.S. 8 C.J.S., Bailments, § 35. ALR. Time and place with reference to which

damages for conversion of chattel are to be determined as against one not a party to the original conversion, 80 A.L.R. 613. Nature of property or rights other than tangible chattels which may be subject of conversion, 44 A.L.R.2d 927.