Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

5-6-12. Cessation of supersedeas and issuance of execution upon affirmance of judgment of lower court.

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If the judgment of the lower court is affirmed, upon the filing of the remittitur with the clerk of the court below, the supersedeas shall cease and execution shall issue at once for the amount of the original judgment.

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, § 4183; Code 1868, § 4222; Code 1873, § 4287; Code 1882, § 4287; Civil Code 1895, § 5598; Civil Code 1910, § 6217; Code 1933, § 6-1805.

Cross references

Supersedeas, Rules of the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, Rule 12. Supersedeas, Rules of the Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia, Rule 50.

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