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2020 Georgia Code
Title 44 - Property
Chapter 12 - Rights in Personalty
Article 1 - In General
§ 44-12-1. Partition of Personal Property

Universal Citation: GA Code § 44-12-1 (2020)

Application may be made and partition of personal property may be obtained in the same manner and under the same regulations as are prescribed by law for obtaining a partition of lands and tenements.

(Orig. Code 1863, § 3908; Code 1868, § 3938; Code 1873, § 4008; Code 1882, § 4008; Civil Code 1895, § 4798; Civil Code 1910, § 5370; Code 1933, § 85-1707.)

Law reviews.

- For article, "Joint Bank Accounts: A Different Form of Joint Tenancy," see 17 Ga. St. B.J. 184 (1981).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Superior courts have jurisdiction in matters of partition; therefore, a petition to a city court for a partition of personal property is a nullity and not amendable. Roberson v. Bennett, 20 Ga. App. 590, 93 S.E. 297 (1917).

Cited in Walden v. Walden, 191 Ga. 182, 12 S.E.2d 345 (1940); Verdery v. Campbell, 203 Ga. 211, 46 S.E.2d 66 (1948).

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