Except as otherwise specifically provided by this article, registered land and ownership therein shall be subject to the same rights, burdens, and incidents as unregistered land and may be dealt with by the owner and shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts in the same manner as if it had not been registered. Transfers of title made by the last registered owner as shown by the title register or said owner’s representatives, heirs, or assigns and recorded in the deed records in the office of the clerk of superior court of the county in which the land is situated shall be valid transfers of title to the land so described.
History. Ga. L. 1917, p. 108, § 73; Code 1933, § 60-424; Ga. L. 1952, p. 164, § 2; Ga. L. 1989, p. 563, § 3.
Structure Georgia Code
Chapter 2 - Recordation and Registration of Deeds and Other Instruments
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
§ 44-2-124. Performance of Duties Upon Disqualification, Death, or Disability of Clerk
§ 44-2-126. Notation of Lien or Encumbrance on Certificate of Title — in General
§ 44-2-128. Registration of Transactions Affecting Unregistered Land as Notice
§ 44-2-129. Registration of Involuntary Transactions on Court’s Order; Form
§ 44-2-133. 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
§ 44-2-138. What Limitations Govern Actions by Injured Party for Fraud or Negligence
§ 44-2-140. Availability of Prescription or Adverse Possession Against Registered Land
§ 44-2-142. Notation of Change of Name on Register and Certificate
§ 44-2-143. Notation of Liens and Lis Pendens on Register; Effect Absent Notation