O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 9-3-114 (2019)
Whom new promise by joint contractor binds
✓ 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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In cases of joint or joint and several contracts, a new promise by one of the contractors shall operate only against the promisor.
History
Ga. L. 1855-56, p. 233, § 27; Code 1863, § 2879; Code 1868, § 2887; Code 1873,
§ 2938; Code 1882, § 2938; Civil Code 1895, § 3792; Civil Code 1910, § 4388; Code 1933, § 3-906.
Annotations
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 51 Am. Jur. 2d, Limitation of Actions, § 284 et seq. C.J.S. 54 C.J.S., Limitation of Actions, § 362 et seq. ALR. Acknowledgment or payment effective
to toll statute against corporation on obligation upon which it is bound as a coobligor with a corporate officer as supporting an inference of acknowledgment which will toll statute as against latter, or vice versa, 144 A.L.R. 1019.