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2020 Georgia Code
Title 44 - Property
Chapter 5 - Acquisition and Loss of Property
Article 7 - Prescription
§ 44-5-174. Tacking of Prior Possession Originating in Fraud
Universal Citation: GA Code § 44-5-174 (2020)
In making out a prescriptive title, an innocent purchaser may not tack to the time period of his own possession the time of possession of a grantor whose possession originated through fraud against the true owner.
(Civil Code 1895, § 3596; Civil Code 1910, § 4176; Code 1933, § 85-415.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 3 Am. Jur. 2d, Adverse Possession, § 76 et seq.
C.J.S.- 2 C.J.S., Adverse Possession, §§ 163, 207, 208.
ALR.
- 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.
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