Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 24. EVIDENCE · Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS · Article 1. PURPOSE AND APPLICABILITY OF RULES OF EVIDENCE

24-1-1. Purpose and construction of the rules of evidence.

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The object of all legal investigation is the discovery of truth. Rules of evidence shall be construed to secure fairness in administration, eliminate unjustifiable expense and delay, and promote the growth and development of the law of evidence to the end that the truth may be ascertained and proceedings justly determined.

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

Code 1981, § 24-1-1, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

Cross references

Purpose, Fed. R. Evid. 102.

Law reviews

For article surveying the law in Georgia on admissions, see 8 Mercer L. Rev. 252 (1957). For article, “An Analysis of Georgia’s Proposed Rules of Evidence,” see 26 Ga. St. B.J. 173 (1990). For article on the 2011 enactment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 1 (2011). For article, “Symposium on Evidence Reform,” see 47 Ga. L. Rev. 657 (2013). For article, “Symposium on Evidence Reform: Searching for Truth in the American Law of Evidence and Proof,” see 47 Ga. L. Rev. 801 (2013).

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