2022 Georgia Code
Title 7 - Banking and Finance
Chapter 4 - Interest and Usury
Article 1 - In General
§ 7-4-15. When Interest Runs on Liquidated Demands; Promissory Notes Payable on Demand
All liquidated demands, where by agreement or otherwise the sum to be paid is fixed or certain, bear interest from the time the party shall become liable and bound to pay them; if payable on demand, they shall bear interest from the time of the demand. In case of promissory notes payable on demand, the law presumes a demand instantly and gives interest from date.
History. Laws 1799, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 405.; Ga. L. 1858, p. 90, § 1; Code 1863, § 2029; Code 1868, § 2030; Code 1873, § 2056; Code 1882, § 2056; Civil Code 1895, § 2884; Civil Code 1910, § 3434; Code 1933, § 57-110.
Law reviews.
For note discussing usury law application to interest charged on liquidated demands and promissory notes payable on demand, see 12 Ga. L. Rev. 814 (1978).
For article, “2015 Georgia Corporation and Business Organization Case Law Developments,” see 21 Ga. St. Bar. J. 30 (Apr. 2016).