Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

9-10-167. Continuance in discretion of court; countershowing to motion for continuance.

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

(a)
All applications for continuances are addressed to the sound legal discretion of the court and, if not expressly provided for, shall be granted or refused as the ends of justice may require.#
(b)
In all cases the presiding judge may, in his discretion, admit a countershowing to a motion for a continuance and, after a hearing, may decide whether the motion shall prevail.#

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, § 3460; Code 1868, § 3480; Ga. L. 1871-72, p. 49, § 1; Ga. L. 1872, p. 41, § 1; Code 1873, § 3531; Code 1882, § 3531; Civil Code 1895, § 5138; Penal Code 1895, § 966; Civil Code 1910, § 5724; Penal Code 1910, § 992; Code 1933, § 81-1419.

Cross references

Corresponding provision relating to criminal procedure, § 17-8-22.

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