2020 Georgia Code
Title 44 - Property
Chapter 5 - Acquisition and Loss of Property
Article 7 - Prescription
§ 44-5-172. Tacking of Successive Possessions
An inchoate prescriptive title may be transferred by a person in possession to his successor so that successive possessions may be tacked to make out the prescription.
(Orig. Code 1863, § 2648; Code 1868, § 2647; Code 1873, § 2689; Code 1882, § 2689; Civil Code 1895, § 3598; Civil Code 1910, § 4178; Code 1933, § 85-416.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 3 Am. Jur. 2d, Adverse Possession, § 76 et seq.
C.J.S.- 2 C.J.S., Adverse Possession, § 154 et seq.
ALR.
- Time during which dominant and servient tracts were in same ownership or under same control as excluded or included in determining easement by prescription, 98 A.L.R. 591.
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.
