O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-5-65 (2019)

Action for breach of warranty - Necessity for offer to rescind; mitigation of damages

✓ 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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To recover upon a breach of a covenant of warranty of title, the warrantee need not offer to rescind the deed. However, an offer by the warrantor to rescind the deed and a refusal by the warrantee should be considered in estimating damages.

History

(Orig. Code 1863, § 2666; Code 1868, § 2662; Code 1873, § 2704; Code 1882, § 3616; Civil Code 1895, § 3616; Civil Code 1910, § 4196; Code 1933, § 29-305.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Mansell v. Pappas, 156 Ga. App. 272, 274 S.E.2d 588 (1980).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d. - 23 Am. Jur. 2d, Deeds, § 237.