2020 Georgia Code
Title 44 - Property
Chapter 5 - Acquisition and Loss of Property
Article 7 - Prescription
§ 44-5-171. Effect of Intervening Disabilities; Tacking
Prescription shall not run against persons under disability during the period of the disability. Upon removal of the disability the prior possession may be tacked or added to the subsequent possession to make out the prescription.
(Orig. Code 1863, § 2646; Code 1868, § 2645; Code 1873, § 2687; Code 1882, § 2687; Civil Code 1895, § 3594; Civil Code 1910, § 4174; Code 1933, § 85-412.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 3 Am. Jur. 2d, Adverse Possession, §§ 73, 76 et seq., 152 et seq., 166, 167, 171 et seq.
C.J.S.- 2 C.J.S., Adverse Possession, §§ 152, 194. 43 C.J.S., Infants, §§ 163, 164.
ALR.
- Prescription or adverse possession as against one under disability of infancy, coverture, or mental incompetency, 43 A.L.R. 941; 147 A.L.R. 236.
Rule that adverse possession of successive holders may be tacked, in determination of period of limitation, as applicable chattels, 135 A.L.R. 711.
Adverse possession: right of remainderman or reversioner to tack his possession to that of life tenant, 150 A.L.R. 557.
Tacking as applied to prescriptive easements, 72 A.L.R.3d 648.
