Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 13. OFFICERS OF COURT GENERALLY · Article 1. LIABILITY FOR OFFICIAL ACTS

15-13-7. Liability of magistrates and constables to rule nisi.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Magistrates and constables shall be considered officers of the superior court so far as to be subject to be ruled under similar conditions as are provided in relation to any other officer of the court and shall be subject to all the penalties as are provided in case of a rule absolute against sheriffs and other officers of the court when they, or either of them, refuse or neglect to collect or to pay over any money which they may have received or collected in their official capacities.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Laws 1820, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 649; Laws 1839, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 651; Code 1863, § 3865; Code 1968, § 3885; Code 1873, § 3961; Ga. L. 1876, p. 37, § 1; Code 1882, § 3961; Civil Code 1895, §§ 4060, 4782; Civil Code 1910, §§ 4657, 5354; Code 1933, § 24-205; Ga. L. 1983, p. 884, § 4-1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 15.

Cross references

Liability of magistrates and constables to be ruled, Rules of the Judicial Qualifications Commission.

Other notes

History of Code section.: The language in this Code section is derived in part from the decision in Barrett & Caswell v. Pulliam, 77 Ga. 552 (1886).

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