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2018 Georgia Code 44-5-14 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)

O.C.G.A. 44-5-14 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 44-5-14

TITLE 44 PROPERTY

Section 5. Acquisition and Loss of Property, 44-5-1 through 44-5-230.

ARTICLE 1 GRANTS FROM STATE

44-5-14. Presumption of grant on 20 years' possession.

When the land is subject to entry and grant, 20 years' possession of land under a claim of right shall authorize the courts to presume a grant.

(Orig. Code 1863, § 2335; Code 1868, § 2332; Code 1873, § 2363; Code 1882, § 2363; Civil Code 1895, § 3222; Civil Code 1910, § 3810; Code 1933, § 85-313.)

Cross references.

- Conferring title after 20 years' adverse possession, § 44-5-163.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Allegations sufficient to satisfy requirements.

- Bill alleging that the complainant and its predecessors in title have been in possession for 20 to 50 years, and that such possession has been public, continuous, open, notorious, exclusive, uninterrupted, and peaceable, and accompanied by a claim of right, satisfies this and other sections on the subject. Western Union Tel. Co. v. Georgia R.R. & Banking Co., 227 F. 276 (S.D. Ga. 1915).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 3 Am. Jur. 2d, Adverse Possession, §§ 7, 8. 63A Am. Jur. 2d, Public Lands, § 77.

C.J.S.

- 73B C.J.S., Public Lands, § 267.

ALR.

- Writing as essential to color of title in adverse occupant of land, 2 A.L.R. 1457.

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