{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-44-6-41","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 44-6-41","heading":"Conditions precedent and subsequent distinguished; preferred construction and remedy.","body":"Conditions may be either precedent or subsequent; conditions precedent require performance before the estate shall vest, and conditions subsequent may cause a forfeiture of a vested estate. The law favors conditions to be subsequent rather than precedent and to be remediable by damages rather than by forfeiture.","path":["TITLE 44 Property","CHAPTER 6 Estates","Article 3 Estates Granted upon Conditions"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.44.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":"a85d15b0307502fab739305927609e7d8a613aa0884b51b13b62fe54e6732264","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-44-6-40","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-44-6-42"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}