Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

9-10-164. Continuances for one term only.

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

A continuance requested by a party in a pending case in any court shall not be granted for longer than one term.

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

Laws 1799, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 486.; Code 1863, § 3448; Code 1868, § 3468; Code 1873, § 3519; Code 1882, § 3519; Civil Code 1895, § 5126; Civil Code 1910, § 5710; Code 1933, § 81-1401.

Cross references

Corresponding provision relating to criminal procedure, § 17-8-37.

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