Effect of Fraud on Prescription

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Property
  4. Acquisition and Loss of Property
  5. Prescription
  6. Effect of Fraud on Prescription

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  1. In order for fraud to prevent the possession of property from being the foundation of prescription, such fraud must be actual or positive and not merely constructive or legal.
  2. When actual or positive fraud prevents or deters another party from acting, prescription shall not run until such fraud is discovered.

(Civil Code 1895, § 3597; Civil Code 1910, § 4177; Code 1933, § 85-414.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 3 Am. Jur. 2d, Adverse Possession, §§ 13 et seq., 111 et seq., 118, 130, 136, 143, 144, 264, 301.

C.J.S.

- 2 C.J.S., Adverse Possession, §§ 208, 263.

ALR.

- What constitutes sufficient repudiation of express trust by trustee to cause statute of limitations to run, 54 A.L.R.2d 13.


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