GEORGIA CODE (Last Updated: August 20, 2013) |
Title 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS |
Chapter 2. PERSONS AND THEIR RIGHTS |
Section 1-2-1. Classes of persons generally; corporations deemed artificial persons; nature of corporations generally
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- (a) There are two classes of persons: natural and artificial.
(b) Corporations are artificial persons. They are creatures of the law and, except insofar as the law forbids it, they are subject to be changed, modified, or destroyed at the will of their creator.
Orig. Code 1863, § 1582; Code 1868, § 1645; Code 1873, § 1651; Code 1882, § 1651; Civil Code 1895, § 1802; Civil Code 1910, § 2159; Code 1933, § 79-101.