Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 10. CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE GENERALLY · Article 5. VERIFICATION

9-10-114. Use of verified answer as evidence; amendment of sworn answer.

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The defendant shall always have the privilege of filing an answer under oath for the purpose of using the same as evidence on any motion to dissolve an injunction or to set aside any extraordinary process or remedy granted. A sworn answer may be amended at any time, by leave of the court, as other pleadings; but an admission made in the answer shall always be evidence when offered by the other party.

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, § 4105; Code 1868, § 4136; Code 1873, § 4195; Code 1882, § 4195; Civil Code 1895, § 5056; Civil Code 1910, § 5639; Code 1933, § 81-402.

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History of Section.: The language of this Code section is derived in part from the decision in Greer v. Andrew, 133 Ga. 193, 65 S.E. 416 (1909).

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