O.C.G.A.
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.
All decrees, deeds, mortgages, or other instruments affecting the title to land shall be recorded by the clerk of the superior court by the use of printing, typewriting, handwriting in ink, photostating, or photographing, which record shall be clear, legible, and permanent. The record may be made by any one or more of such methods. It shall be lawful to make a photostatic copy or copies of any plats, blueprints, or other copies of plats that are already of record in the clerk’s office. These copies or photostatic copies thereof shall serve all purposes and shall be as authentic as the originals.
History
(Ga. L. 1929, p. 321, § 1; Code 1933, § 29-420; Ga. L. 1950, p. 413, § 1.)
Annotations
RESEARCH REFERENCES ing title to property or other subjects which are matters of public record, 33 ALR 853; 56 ALR 1217. Duty of vendor as to abstract of title, 52 ALR 1460.
Am. Jur. 2d. - 23 Am. Jur. 2d, Deeds, § 270. C.J.S. - 26A C.J.S., Deeds, §§ 161, 162. 76 C.J.S., Records, § 3 et seq. ALR. - Fraudulent misrepresentation or concealment by a contracting party concern-
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
3
cases, 1996–2013 · leading case:
Adams v. City of Ila, 471 S.E.2d 310 (Ga. Ct. App. 1996).
Adams v. City of Ila, 471 S.E.2d 310 (Ga. Ct. App. 1996).
· cites it 2× “As the trial court judicially noticed, in the county where the deed was recorded, the standard practice in 1971 was to have all deeds, including any signatures contained thereon, typed into the record because no photocopy machines were available in the county at that time.”
Gordon v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (In Re Codrington), 430 B.R. 287 (Bankr. N.D. Ga. 2009).
“ty, contract to sell or convey realty or any interest therein); § 44-2-8 (options to purchase land or any interest in land and assignments of such options to purchase); § 44-2-9 (leases or usufructs of land or of any interest in land and assignments of *299 such leases or…”
Det. Mgmt., LLC v. UMB Bank, NA (In re Mun. Corr., LLC), 501 B.R. 119 (Bankr. N.D. Ga. 2013).
“, contract to sell or con *134 vey realty or any interest therein); § 44-2-8 (options to purchase land or any interest in land and assignments of such options to purchase); § 44-2-9 (leases or usufructs of land or of any interest in land and assignments of such leases or…”
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