Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 51. TORTS · Chapter 7. FALSE ARREST, FALSE IMPRISONMENT, MALICIOUS PROSECUTION, AND ABUSIVE LITIGATION · Article 2. FALSE IMPRISONMENT

51-7-20. False imprisonment defined.

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False imprisonment is the unlawful detention of the person of another, for any length of time, whereby such person is deprived of his personal liberty.

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, § 2932; Code 1868, § 2939; Code 1873, § 2990; Code 1882, § 2990; Civil Code 1895, § 3851; Civil Code 1910, § 4447; Code 1933, § 105-901.

Cross references

Criminal penalties for false imprisonment, §§ 16-5-41, 16-5-42.

Law reviews

For article surveying torts law, see 34 Mercer L. Rev. 271 (1982).

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