Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 12. VERDICT AND JUDGMENT · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

9-12-8. Amendment of verdict — When part illegal.

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If a part of a verdict is legal and a part illegal, the court will construe the verdict and order it amended by entering a remittitur as to that part which is illegal and giving judgment for the balance.

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, § 3423; Code 1868, § 3443; Code 1873, § 3493; Code 1882, § 3493; Civil Code 1895, § 5112; Civil Code 1910, § 5696; Code 1933, § 110-112.

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