When any deed, mortgage, or other instrument conveying an interest in or creating a lien on real property refers to the boundaries, metes, courses, or distances of the real estate delineated or shown on any plat of the property or on any blueprint, tracing, photostatic or digital copy, or other copy of the plat which has been recorded as authorized in Code Section 44-2-26 and when the deed, mortgage, or other instrument states the office, book, and page of recordation of the plat or of the blueprint, tracing, photostatic or digital copy, or other copy of the plat, the reference shall be equivalent to setting forth in the deed, mortgage, or other instrument the boundaries, metes, courses, or distances of the real estate as may be delineated or shown on the plat or on the blueprint, tracing, photostatic or digital copy, or other copy thereof.
History. Ga. L. 1937, p. 746, § 3; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 44; Ga. L. 2016, p. 193, § 7/HB 1004.
The 2016 amendment, effective January 1, 2017, inserted “or digital” throughout this Code section.
Structure Georgia Code
Chapter 2 - Recordation and Registration of Deeds and Other Instruments
Part 1 - Recording of Deeds and Other Real Property Transactions
§ 44-2-3. Voluntary Deeds or Conveyances of Land; Effect of Recording
§ 44-2-5. Recording Execution and Deed After Sheriff’s Sale
§ 44-2-7. Recording of Surrender or Satisfaction of Bond for Title
§ 44-2-8. Recording of Options to Purchase Land and Assignments of Such Options; Effect as Notice
§ 44-2-9. Recording Leases, Usufructs, and Assignments Thereof; Effect as Notice
§ 44-2-10. Recording Deeds and Bills of Sale to Personalty; Effect as Notice
§ 44-2-12. Rerecording Lost or Destroyed Deeds and Other Instruments; Validity
§ 44-2-14. Requirements for Recordation
§ 44-2-15. Officers Authorized to Attest Registrable Instruments
§ 44-2-16. Effect of Acknowledgment Subsequent to Execution
§ 44-2-18. Recording Deed Upon Affidavit of Subscribing Witness; Effect of Substantial Compliance
§ 44-2-19. Recording Deed on Affidavit of Third Person
§ 44-2-22. Legal Effect of Good Record Title for 40 Years
§ 44-2-24. Withdrawal of Affidavit of Forgery Upon Loss of Deed by Affiant
§ 44-2-25. Recording Techniques; Copies of Plats
§ 44-2-26. Recording of Plat or Copy of Plat — When and Where Authorized; Duty of Clerk
§ 44-2-27. Recording of Plat — When Deemed Recorded
§ 44-2-28. Recording of Plat or Copy of Plat — Incorporation by Reference