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Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 10. CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE GENERALLY · Article 9. GENERAL CIVIL FORMS

9-10-200. Action for recovery of realty and mesne profits.

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

  1. The form of an action for the recovery of real estate and mesne profits may be as follows:

  2. IN THE COURT OF COUNTY

  3. STATE OF GEORGIA

  4. A.B., )

  5. Plaintiff )

  6. )

  7. v. ) Civil action

  8. ) File no.

  9. C.D., ) (Clerk will insert

  10. Defendant ) number.)

  11. COMPLAINT

  12. The defendant herein named is a resident of

  13. (street), (city), County, Georgia, and is subject to the jurisdiction of this court.

  14. 1.

  15. Defendant C.D. of said county is in possession of a certain tract of land in said county (here describe the land) to which plaintiff claims title.

  16. 2.

  17. Defendant has received the profits of said land since the

  18. day of , , of the yearly value of $ and refuses to deliver said land to plaintiff or to pay him the profits thereof. Wherefore, plaintiff demands judgment against defendant (here list the relief prayed for).

  19. Attorney for plaintiff Address

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History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3301; Code 1868, § 3313; Code 1873, § 3389; Code 1882, § 3389; Ga. L. 1999, p. 81, § 9.

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

Text read from t9-ch1-10-(v6)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V6, 2023 edition, pages 904 to 905; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 ea8a520ad52f.

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