Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

51-7-4. Arrest under civil process of person exempt from such arrest.

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

The willful arrest, under civil process, of a person exempt by law from such arrest shall be deemed malicious until the contrary shall be proved.

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, § 2938; Code 1868, § 2945; Code 1873, § 2996; Code 1882, § 2996; Civil Code 1895, § 3857; Civil Code 1910, § 4453; Code 1933, § 105-1004.

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