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Home » US Law » 2022 Georgia Code » Title 10 - Commerce and Trade » Chapter 6 - Agency » Article 2 - Relations Between Principal and Agent » § 10-6-30. Agents and Fiduciaries to Keep Accounts; Effect of Neglect

It shall be the duty of agents, trustees, administrators, guardians, conservators, receivers, and all other fiduciaries to keep their accounts in a regular manner and to be always ready with them supported by proper vouchers; neglect of this duty shall be ground for charging them with interest on balances on hand and with costs.

History. Civil Code 1895, § 3007; Civil Code 1910, § 3579; Code 1933, § 4-211; Ga. L. 2006, p. 805, § 2/SB 534.

History of Code section.

This Code section is derived from the decisions in Dowling v. Feeley, 72 Ga. 557 (1884), and Poullain v. Poullain, 76 Ga. 420 , 4 S.E. 92 (1886).