O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-12-61 (2019)

Qualified ownership and rights of hirer

✓ 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 hirer of things acquires a qualified ownership of them for the time specified, which qualified ownership entitles him to all their increase and to the possession and enjoyment of them during the period of bailment against everyone else, including the owner himself.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 2057; Code 1868, § 2060; Code 1873, § 2086; Code 1882,

§ 2086; Civil Code 1895, § 2904; Civil Code 1910, § 3477; Code 1933, § 12-202.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS “Increase” defined. - The word “increase” means the issue of animals, or that which issues from a principal. Jack-

son v. Maddox, 136 Ga. 31, 70 S.E. 865, 1912B Am. Ann. Cas. 1216 (1911).

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. Duty and liability of farm tenant in

respect to livestock leased with farm, 32 A.L.R. 857.