2020 Georgia Code
Title 44 - Property
Chapter 5 - Acquisition and Loss of Property
Article 2 - Conveyances
§ 44-5-33. Form of Deed
No prescribed form is essential to the validity of a deed to lands or personalty. If the deed is sufficient in itself to make known the transaction between the parties, no want of form will invalidate it.
(Laws 1768, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 163; Laws 1785, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 164; Code 1863, § 2651; Code 1868, § 2650; Code 1873, § 2692; Code 1882, § 2692; Civil Code 1895, § 3602; Civil Code 1910, § 4182; Code 1933, § 29-104.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 23 Am. Jur. 2d, Deeds, § 12 et seq.
C.J.S.- 26A C.J.S., Deeds, § 34 et seq.
ALR.
- Effect of designating grantee in deed or mortgage by firm name, 1 A.L.R. 564; 8 A.L.R. 493.
Validity and effect of deed to "heirs" of living person, 22 A.L.R. 713.
Validity and effect of deed executed in blank as to name of grantee, 32 A.L.R. 737; 175 A.L.R. 1294.
Sufficiency and construction of description in deed or mortgage as "all" of grantor's property, or "all" of his property in certain locality, 55 A.L.R. 162.
Acknowledgment or oath over telephone, 58 A.L.R. 604.
Sufficiency of execution of instrument by agent or attorney in fact in name of principal without his own name appearing, 96 A.L.R. 1251.
Fee simple conditional, 114 A.L.R. 602.
Time limitation for attack on tax title as affected by defective description of property in the assessment or the tax deed, 133 A.L.R. 570.
Validity and effect of deed which identifies tract conveyed only by reference to its area and a specified corner or other part of a larger tract from which it is to be taken, 139 A.L.R. 1180.
Deed or mortgage as affected by uncertainty of description of excepted area, 162 A.L.R. 288.
Record of instrument without sufficient acknowledgment as notice, 59 A.L.R.2d 1299.
