Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 10. CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE GENERALLY · Article 2. VENUE · Part 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

9-10-33. Action against nonresident found in state.

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

A person who is not a citizen of this state, passing through or sojourning temporarily in the state, may be subject to an action in any county thereof in which he may be found at the time when the action is brought.

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, § 3318; Code 1868, § 3339; Code 1873, § 3416; Code 1882, § 3416; Civil Code 1895, § 4954; Civil Code 1910, § 5531; Code 1933, § 3-206.

Cross references

Personal jurisdiction over nonresident generally, § 9-10-90.

Law reviews

For article discussing aspects of third party practice (impleader) under the Georgia Civil Practice Act, see 4 Ga. St. B.J. 355 (1968). For comment on White v. Henry, 232 Ga. 64, 205 S.E.2d 206 (1974), see 26 Mercer L. Rev. 317 (1974).

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