O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 44-5-31 (2019)
Requisites of deed to personalty; necessity for deed
✓ 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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A deed to personalty needs no attesting witness to make it valid; in other respects, the principles applicable to deeds to lands are applicable to deeds to personalty. However, generally a deed is not necessary to convey title to personalty.
History
(Orig. Code 1863, § 2655; Code 1868, § 2654; Code 1873, § 2696; Code 1882, § 2696; Civil Code 1895, § 3606; Civil Code 1910, § 4186; Code 1933, § 29-108.)
Annotations
JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Larkin v. City of Darien, 69 Ga. 727 (1882); Haas & Howell v. Godby, 33 Ga. App. 218, 125 S.E. 897 (1924); A.O.
Blackmar Co. v. NCR, 64 Ga. App. 739, 14 S.E.2d 153 (1941).
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 23 Am. Jur. 2d, Deeds, § 97 et seq.
C.J.S. - 33 C.J.S., Exchange of Property, § 29.