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Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 19. ATTORNEYS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

15-19-8. Relief from acts of unauthorized attorney.

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  1. If it is alleged by a party for whom an attorney appears that the attorney does so without authority, the court, at any stage of the proceedings, if fully satisfied that the allegation is true, may relieve the party for whom the attorney assumed to appear from the consequences of his acts.

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

Orig. Code 1863, § 385; Code 1868, § 446; Code 1873, § 411; Code 1882, § 411; Civil Code 1895, § 4421; Civil Code 1910, § 4959; Code 1933, § 9-603.

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Text read from t15-ch12-24-(v13a)-2015-pdf.pdf, Volume V13A, 2015 edition, pages 386 to 387; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 3ead04cf60ab.