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2020 Georgia Code
Title 44 - Property
Chapter 5 - Acquisition and Loss of Property
Article 7 - Prescription
§ 44-5-176. Effect on Prescription of Notice of Instrument Creating a Lien
Universal Citation: GA Code § 44-5-176 (2020)
Prescription shall not run against the owner or holder of a mortgage, a deed to secure debt, a bill of sale to secure debt, or any other instrument creating a lien on or conveying an interest in real or personal property as security for debt in favor of a person who has actual or constructive notice of such instrument.
(Ga. L. 1937, p. 755, § 1.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 3 Am. Jur. 2d, Adverse Possession, §§ 12, 13, 15, 112 et seq., 169, 224 et seq. 264, 301.
C.J.S.- 2 C.J.S., Adverse Possession, § 208. 59 C.J.S., Mortgages, §§ 255, 695.
ALR.
- Adverse possession by stranger as against mortgagee, 136 A.L.R. 782.
Adverse possession: mortgagee's possession before foreclosure as barring right of redemption, 7 A.L.R.2d 1131.
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