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

O.C.G.A. § 44-6-89 (2019)

Removal of personalty beyond state by life tenant; forfeiture; restraint

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The tenant for life in personalty shall not remove such personalty outside this state without the consent of the remainderman. If the tenant for life fraudulently attempts to remove the personalty, he shall forfeit his interest therein; if he attempts to do so without fraud, the remainderman or reversioner shall be entitled to the writ of ne exeat to restrain him.

History

(Laws 1830, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 527; Code 1863, § 2243; Code 1868, § 2235; Code 1873, § 2261; Code 1882, § 2261; Civil Code 1895, § 3096; Civil Code 1910, § 3672; Code 1933, § 85-1708.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Section strictly construed. - This statute is for the protection of the rights of remaindermen and reversioners in personal property and should be strictly construed, and the statute's provisions fully complied with. Wallace v. Duncan, 13 Ga. 41 (1853) (see O.C.G.A. § 44-6-89).

Bond lies for delivery of property when removed from state. - When a life tenant and the tenant's purchaser removed slaves from the state, a bill will lie to make them give bond for the delivery of the property with increase to the remaindermen. Riddle v. Kellum, 8 Ga. 374 (1850).

Ne exeat will be dissolved when there is other relief more appropriate to the case. Hawthorn v. Kelly, 30 Ga. 965 (1860).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d. - 57 Am. Jur. 2d, Ne Exeat, §§ 6, 7.

C.J.S. - 31 C.J.S., Estates, § 73.

ALR. - Relative rights of life beneficiary and remainderman as to return on bonds or other obligations for the payment of money, bought at a premium or at a discount, 101 A.L.R. 7; 131 A.L.R. 1426.

Right of life tenant under a grant or reservation of a life interest in oil and gas (as distinguished from the land) in res of oil and gas developed after the commencement of his interest, 150 A.L.R. 695.

Rights and duties of life tenant and remainderman (income and corpus) with respect to repairs and improvements, 175 A.L.R. 1434.