Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 10. CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE GENERALLY · Article 7. CONTINUANCES

9-10-154. Grounds for continuance — Party providentially prevented from attendance; statement of counsel.

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If either party is providentially prevented from attending the trial of a case, and the counsel of the absent party will state in his place that he cannot go safely to trial without the presence of the absent party, the case shall be continued, provided the continuances of the party have not been exhausted.

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, § 3453; Code 1868, § 3473; Code 1873, § 3524; Code 1882, § 3524; Civil Code 1895, § 5131; Civil Code 1910, § 5717; Code 1933, § 81-1412.

Cross references

Corresponding provision relating to criminal procedure, § 17-8-23.

Law reviews

For annual survey on trial practice and procedure, see 42 Mercer L. Rev. 469 (1990).

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