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2018 Georgia Code 9-3-52 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 9 CIVIL PRACTICE

Section 3. Limitations of Actions, 9-3-1 through 9-3-115.

ARTICLE 3 LIMITATIONS ON RECOVERY FOR DEFICIENCIES CONNECTED WITH IMPROVEMENTS TO REALTY AND RESULTING INJURIES

9-3-52. Limitation not available to owner or tenant.

The limitation prescribed by this article shall not be asserted as a defense by any person who would otherwise be entitled to its benefits but who is in actual possession or control, as owner, tenant, or otherwise, of such an improvement at the time any deficiency of such an improvement constitutes the proximate cause of the injury or death for which it is proposed to bring an action.

(Ga. L. 1968, p. 127, § 4.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Benning Constr. Co. v. Lakeshore Plaza Enters., Inc., 240 Ga. 426, 241 S.E.2d 184 (1977); Landon v. Williams Bros. Concrete Co., 149 Ga. App. 699, 256 S.E.2d 99 (1979).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 51 Am. Jur. 2d, Limitation of Actions, § 131.

C.J.S.

- 53 C.J.S., Limitation of Actions, § 64 et seq.

ALR.

- Validity and construction, as to claim alleging design defects, of statute imposing time limitations upon action against architect or engineer for injury or death arising out of defective or unsafe condition of improvement to real property, 93 A.L.R.3d 1242.

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