{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-23-2-21","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 23-2-21","heading":"What mistakes relievable in equity; power to relieve to be exercised cautiously.","body":"(a) A mistake relievable in equity is some unintentional act, omission, or error arising from ignorance, surprise, imposition, or misplaced confidence.\n(b) Mistakes may be either of law or of fact.\n(c) The power to relieve mistakes shall be exercised with caution; to justify it, the evidence shall be clear, unequivocal, and decisive as to the mistake.","path":["TITLE 23 Equity","CHAPTER 2 Grounds for Equitable Relief","Article 2 Accident and Mistake"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.23.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"0396e2639f7d00abfdfe8d3106c9a0ba1c8ab331b1d67cc98074e91906db29b7","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-23-2-20","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-23-2-22"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}