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Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 11. CIVIL PRACTICE ACT · Article 9. GENERAL PROVISIONS

9-11-81. Applicability.

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  1. This chapter shall apply to all special statutory proceedings except to the extent that specific rules of practice and procedure in conflict herewith are expressly prescribed by law; but, in any event, the provisions of this chapter governing the sufficiency of pleadings, defenses, amendments, counterclaims, cross-claims, third-party practice, joinder of parties and causes, making parties, discovery and depositions, interpleader, intervention, evidence, motions, summary judgment, relief from judgments, and the effect of judgments shall apply to all such proceedings.

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

Ga. L. 1966, p. 609, § 81; Ga. L. 1967, p. 226, § 33; Ga. L. 1968, p. 1104, § 12.

Cross references

Special statutory proceeding for review of final action of Department of Banking and Finance, § 7-1-90.

Law reviews

For article, ‘‘Synopses of 1968 Amendments Appellate Procedure Act and Georgia Civil Practice Act,’’ see 4 Ga. St. B.J. 503 (1968). For article discussing inapplicability of provisions of this chapter concerning service of process to personal property foreclosures under § 44-14-230 et seq., see 11 Ga. St. B.J. 230 (1975). For survey article citing developments in Georgia trial practice and procedure from mid-1980 through mid-1981, see 33 Mercer L. Rev. 275 (1981). For survey article on trial practice and procedure, see 34 Mercer L. Rev. 299 (1982). For article, ‘‘Procedure and Problems in Georgia Ad Valorem Tax Appeals,’’ see 26 Ga. St. B.J. 98 (1990). For article, ‘‘Georgia Law of Alimony,’’ see 4 Ga. St. B.J. 54 (1999).

Other notes

U.S. Code.
For provisions of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 81, see 28 U.S.C.

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