GEORGIA CODE (Last Updated: August 20, 2013) |
Title 44. PROPERTY |
Chapter 5. ACQUISITION AND LOSS OF PROPERTY |
Article 1. GRANTS FROM STATE |
Section 44-5-11. Grounds for setting aside grants
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- Upon a writ of scire facias, grants issued by the state may be set aside by the superior court of the county where the land is located on the ground:
(1) That they were obtained by fraud or willful misrepresentations to the officers of the state by the grantee or those in privity with him;
(2) Of collusion between the grantee and the officers of the state; or
(3) Of fraud, accident, or mistake by the officers of the state, which fraud, accident, or mistake was known to the grantee.
Orig. Code 1863, § 2332; Code 1868, § 2329; Code 1873, § 2360; Code 1882, § 2360; Civil Code 1895, § 3219; Civil Code 1910, § 3807; Code 1933, § 85-310.