2018 Georgia Code
Title 44 - Property
Chapter 6 - Estates
Article 2 - Fee Simple Estates
§ 44-6-24. Estates tail abolished; effect of limitations which would create estate tail by implication

Universal Citation: GA Code § 44-6-24 (2018)
  • (a) Estates tail are prohibited and abolished and the law shall not presume or imply such an estate. Gifts or grants to a person and the heirs of his body, to his male heirs or female heirs, to his heirs by a particular person, to his children, or to his issue shall convey an absolute fee.

  • (b) Limitations which, by the English rules of construction, would create an estate tail by implication shall give a life estate to the first taker and with remainder over in fee to his children and their descendants, as provided in Code Section 44-6-23, and, if none is living at the time of his death, with remainder over in fee to the beneficiaries intended by the maker of the instrument.

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