O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-9-53 (2019)

Establishment of private way over wild lands without notice to landowner; assessment of damages after notice

✓ 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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If a private way is established over the wild lands of a person who has no notice of the proceeding, at any time within six months after the receipt of such notice he may proceed to have damages assessed against all the landowners who habitually use the private way.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 702; Code 1868, § 764; Code 1873, § 730; Code 1882,

§ 730; Civil Code 1895, § 671; Civil Code 1910, § 817; Code 1933, § 83-111.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 25 Am. Jur. 2d, Easements and Licenses, §§ 53, 129, 130.

C.J.S. 28A C.J.S., Easements, §§ 209, 210.