Georgia Code
Part 4 - Registers and Registration
§ 44-2-140. Availability of Prescription or Adverse Possession Against Registered Land

Title to or right or interest in registered land in derogation of that of the registered owner may be acquired by prescription or adverse possession.
History. Ga. L. 1917, p. 108, § 66; Code 1933, § 60-423; Ga. L. 1989, p. 563, § 2.
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For note on 1989 amendment to this Code section, see 6 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 315 (1989).

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Georgia Code

Title 44 - Property

Chapter 2 - Recordation and Registration of Deeds and Other Instruments

Article 2 - Land Registration

Part 4 - Registers and Registration

§ 44-2-120. Furnishing and Maintaining Register Books; Issuance of Owner’s Certificate of Title

§ 44-2-121. Signing and Dating Register Entries and Owners’ Certificates

§ 44-2-122. Clerk’s Duties and Liabilities; Conclusive Effect of Registration Entries; Time for Filing Caveat; Petition for Direction

§ 44-2-123. Clerk’s Duty to Ensure Proper Execution of Voluntary Transfer; Liability for Damage or Loss Arising From Registration of Improperly Executed Transfer

§ 44-2-124. Performance of Duties Upon Disqualification, Death, or Disability of Clerk

§ 44-2-125. When Recordation Other Than Registration Not Required; Filing Instruments; Admissibility of Certified Copies and Use as Evidence; Recordation Procedure When Instrument Is Not in Short Form

§ 44-2-126. Notation of Lien or Encumbrance on Certificate of Title — in General

§ 44-2-127. Notation of Lien or Encumbrance on Certificate of Title — Registered Encumbrances, Rights, and Adverse Claims

§ 44-2-128. Registration of Transactions Affecting Unregistered Land as Notice

§ 44-2-129. Registration of Involuntary Transactions on Court’s Order; Form

§ 44-2-130. Cancellation of Decedent’s Certificate and Issuance of New Certificate to Personal Representative

§ 44-2-131. Declaration of Title by Descent Upon Petition; Service of Petition and Publication of Notice; Transfer of Registered Title and Issuance of New Certificates; Rights of Surviving Spouse

§ 44-2-132. Compelling Production of Owner’s Certificate for Registration of Involuntary Transfer; Cancellation of Certificate Upon Failure to Produce It; Notice of Cancellation

§ 44-2-133. Procedure for Obtaining Duplicate of Lost Owner’s Certificate

§ 44-2-134. Filing Caveat Objecting to Entry in Title Register; Show Cause Hearing Upon Caveat

§ 44-2-135. Obtaining Notations in Title Register

§ 44-2-136. Cancellation of Mortgage, Lien, Equity, or Lis Pendens; Entry of Cancellation on Title Register and Certificate; Procedure Upon Refusal to Authorize Cancellation

§ 44-2-137. What Adverse Claims Affect Registered Land; Effect of Fraud or Forgery; Limitations on Actions to Set Aside

§ 44-2-138. What Limitations Govern Actions by Injured Party for Fraud or Negligence

§ 44-2-140. Availability of Prescription or Adverse Possession Against Registered Land

§ 44-2-141. Rights, Burdens, and Incidents as to Both Registered and Unregistered Land; Validity of Transfers of Title by Last Registered Owner

§ 44-2-142. Notation of Change of Name on Register and Certificate

§ 44-2-143. Notation of Liens and Lis Pendens on Register; Effect Absent Notation

§ 44-2-144. Freeing Land From Further Registration; Certificates as Conclusive Source of Title; Notation of Encumbrances; When Land Automatically Freed; Registered Land Free of Further Registration; Exception