2025 Code of Georgia
Title 44 - Property (Chs. 1 — 17)
Chapter 6 - Estates (Arts. 1 — 9)
Article 2 - Fee Simple Estates (§§ 44-6-20 — 44-6-25)
Annotations
Research References & Practice Aids
Law reviews.For article surveying Georgia cases in the area of real property from June 1977 through May 1978, see 30 Mercer L. Rev. 167 (1978).
RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR.Scope and import of term “owner” in statutes relating to real property, 2 A. L. R. 778; 95 A. L. R. 1085.
Perpetual lease or covenant to renew lease perpetually as violation of rule against perpetuities or the suspension of the power of alienation, 3 A. L. R. 498; 162 A. L. R. 1147.
Right of purchaser under land contract to anticipate time of payment fixed by contract, 17 A. L. R. 866.
Right of vendee who enters under parol contract, to recover for improvements where vendor refuses to convey, 17 A. L. R. 949.
Right of owner of fee burdened with easement in nature of street, private or public, to compensation on condemnation of property for public street, 17 A. L. R. 1249.
Absolute power of disposition in life tenant as elevating life estate to fee, 76 A. L. R. 1153.
Nature of estates or interests created by grant or devise to one and heirs if donee should have any heirs, 16 A. L. R.2d 670.
Grant, reservation, or exception as creating separate and independent legal estate in solid minerals or as passing only incorporeal privilege or license, 66 A. L. R.2d 978.
Deed to railroad company as conveying fee or easement, 6 A. L. R.3d 973.
Hierarchy Notes:O. C. G. A. Title 44
O. C. G. A. Title 44, Ch. 6
- § 44-6-20. Absolute or fee simple estate
- § 44-6-21. Words necessary to create absolute estate; preference for construing as conveyance; maker’s intention controls; parol evidence
- § 44-6-22. Creation of estate to commence in future; fee in abeyance; fee limited upon fee
- § 44-6-23. Construction of words such as "heirs" or "heirs of body."
- § 44-6-24. Estates tail abolished; effect of limitations which would create estate tail by implication
- § 44-6-25. Construction and effect of limitations over after death of first taker