Section 44-5-170. Effect of disabilities on commencement of prescription

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Prescription shall not run against the rights of a minor during his minority, a person incompetent by reason of mental illness or retardation as long as the mental illness or retardation lasts, or a person imprisoned during his imprisonment. After any such disability is removed, prescription shall run against the person holding a claim to realty or personalty.

Laws 1767, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 559; Ga. L. 1855-56, p. 233, § 19; Code 1863, § 2645; Code 1868, § 2644; Code 1873, § 2686; Code 1882, § 2686; Civil Code 1895, § 3593; Civil Code 1910, § 4173; Code 1933, § 85-411.

                    
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