51-5-9. Right of action for malicious use of privilege.

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

In every case of privileged communications, if the privilege is used merely as a cloak for venting private malice and not bona fide in promotion of the object for which the privilege is granted, the party defamed shall have a right of action.

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, § 2923; Code 1868, § 2930; Code 1873, § 2981; Code 1882, § 2981; Civil Code 1895, § 3841; Civil Code 1910, § 4437; Code 1933, § 105-710.

Law reviews

For article, ‘‘Defamation and Invasion of Privacy,’’ see 27 Ga. St. B. J. 18 (1990).

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