O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-9-51 (2019)

Establishment of private way by several landowners; duties and privileges of subsequent vendees

✓ 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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Several landowners may join together in opening a private way or in maintaining it after establishment or both. When this has been done and has been entered on the official minutes of the county commission and the road deed file, the duties and privileges incident thereto shall extend to vendees of the same real estate.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 700; Code 1868, § 762; Code 1873, § 728; Code 1882,

§ 728; Civil Code 1895, § 669; Civil Code 1910, § 815; Code 1933, § 83-109.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS O.C.G.A. § 44-9-51 does not refer to the right of prescription. Thompson v.

Easley, 87 Ga. 320, 13 S.E. 511, 1891 Ga. LEXIS 157 (1891).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 25 Am. Jur. 2d, Easements and Licenses, § 52.