Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 5. APPEAL AND ERROR · Chapter 6. CERTIORARI AND APPEALS TO APPELLATE COURTS GENERALLY · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

5-6-1. Appearance before court of interested third parties.

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When a case is set for a hearing before the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals and there are parties besides the plaintiffs and defendants, whether shown by the record or not, who have a direct interest in its result, upon the interest being made to appear the court shall allow the other parties to appear by counsel on equal terms with the parties directly before the court.

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.

Ga. L. 1870, p. 47, § 5; Code 1873, § 4275; Code 1882, § 4275; Civil Code 1895, § 5581; Civil Code 1910, § 6196; Code 1933, § 6-1506.

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