Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 51. TORTS · Chapter 7. FALSE ARREST, FALSE IMPRISONMENT, MALICIOUS PROSECUTION, AND ABUSIVE LITIGATION · Article 1. FALSE ARREST

51-7-1. Right of action for false arrest.

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An arrest under process of law, without probable cause, when made maliciously, shall give a right of action to the party arrested.

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, § 2935; Code 1868, § 2942; Code 1873, § 2993; Code 1882, § 2993; Civil Code 1895, § 3854; Civil Code 1910, § 4450; Code 1933, § 105-1001.

Law reviews

For article, ‘‘Georgia Local Government Officers: Rights for Their Wrongs,’’ see 13 Ga. L. Rev. 747 (1979).

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