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Title 23. EQUITY · Chapter 3. EQUITABLE REMEDIES AND PROCEEDINGS GENERALLY · Article 5. BILLS OF PEACE

23-3-110. Bill of peace; when entertained; ancillary injunction.

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

  1. (a)

    It being the interest of this state that there shall be an end of litigation, equity will entertain a bill of peace:#

    1. (1)

      To confirm some right which has been previously satisfactorily established by more than one legal trial and is likely to be litigated again;#

    2. (2)

      To avoid a multiplicity of actions by establishing a right, in favor of or against several persons, which is likely to be the subject of legal controversy; or#

    3. (3)

      In other similar cases.#

  2. (b)

    As ancillary to this jurisdiction, equity will grant perpetual injunctions.#

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, §§ 3154, 3155; Code 1868, §§ 3166, 3167; Code 1873, §§ 3233, 3234; Code 1882, §§ 3233, 3234; Civil Code 1895, §§ 4894, 4895; Civil Code 1910, §§ 5469, 5470; Code 1933, §§ 37-1501, 37-1502.

Law reviews

For article discussing aspects of third-party practice (impleader) under the Georgia Civil Practice Act, see 4 Ga. St. B.J. 355 (1968).

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