O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-2-140 (2019)

Availability of prescription or adverse possession against registered land

✓ 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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Title to or right or interest in registered land in derogation of that of the registered owner may be acquired by prescription or adverse possession.

History

(Ga. L. 1917, p. 108, § 66; Code 1933, § 60-423; Ga. L. 1989, p. 563, § 2.)

Annotations

Law reviews. - For note on 1989 amendment to this Code section, see 6 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 315 (1989).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Lankford v. Dockery, 85 Ga. App. 86, 67 S.E.2d 800 (1951). RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 66 Am. Jur. 2d, Registration of Land Titles, § 20.

C.J.S. - 76 C.J.S., Registration of Land Titles, § 25.