Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

51-7-3. Lack of probable cause defined; question for jury.

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

Lack of probable cause shall exist when the circumstances are such as to satisfy a reasonable man that the accuser had no ground for proceeding but his desire to injure the accused. Lack of probable cause shall be a question for the jury, under the direction of 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.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 2937; Code 1868, § 2944; Code 1873, § 2995; Code 1882, § 2995; Civil Code 1895, § 3856; Civil Code 1910, § 4452; Code 1933, § 105-1003.

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