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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

9-10-204. Action for words.

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

  1. The form of an action for words 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 (street), (city), County, Georgia, and is subject to the jurisdiction of this court.

  13. Defendant C.D. has injured and damaged plaintiff in the sum of $ , by falsely and maliciously saying of and concerning plaintiff, on the day of , , the following false and malicious words to (name of person): (here give the words).

  14. Wherefore, plaintiff demands judgment against defendant (here list the relief prayed for).

  15. Attorney for plaintiff Address

Reading note: the printed indentation of one or more subsections was ambiguous, so their nesting is the extractor's best reading. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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, § 3307; Code 1868, § 3319; Code 1873, § 3396; Code 1882, § 3396; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 9; Ga. L. 1999, p. 81, § 9.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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 908 to 909; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 ea8a520ad52f.