Georgia Code, Title 13, Chapter 5, Article 1 - General Provisions

• § 13-5-1 - Pleading of Facts Indicating Contract Not Obligatory Generally
  Any fact going to show that a contract was not obligatory, though executed, may be pleaded as a defense.
• § 13-5-2 - Incapacity Generally
  A person may plead his own incapacity to contract.
• § 13-5-3 - Exemption From Contractual Liability of Minor
  The exemption of a minor from contractual liability is a personal privilege. The party contracting with a minor may not plead it unless he...
• § 13-5-4 - Mistake of Fact or Law
  If the consideration upon which a contract is based was given as a result of a mutual mistake of fact or of law, the...
• § 13-5-5 - Fraud
  Fraud renders contracts voidable at the election of the injured party.
• § 13-5-6 - Duress
  Since the free assent of the parties is essential to a valid contract, duress, either by imprisonment, threats, or other acts, by which the...
• § 13-5-7 - Rescission or Release
  A rescission of a contract by consent or a release by the other contracting party shall be a complete defense.
• § 13-5-8 - Noncompliance With Condition, Failure of Consideration, or Other Act As Defense
  A condition, precedent or subsequent, not complied with, insufficiency or failure of consideration, or any act of the opposite party, by which the obligation...
• § 13-5-9 - Total or Partial Failure of Consideration Generally
  If the consideration for a promise, apparently good or valuable, fails either wholly or in part before the promise is executed, the failure of...
• § 13-5-10 - Failure to Perform Dependent Covenant
  Where covenants are dependent, the failure of performance by the opposing party may be a good defense.
• § 13-5-11 - Part Performance
  In a severable contract or one admitting of apportionment, a part performance may be a defense pro tanto.

Last modified: October 14, 2016