Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 14. HABEAS CORPUS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

9-14-11. Respondent’s return to writ — Verification; production of person detained.

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Every return to a writ of habeas corpus shall be under oath. If the custody or detention of the party on whose behalf the writ issues is admitted, his body shall be produced unless prevented by providential cause or prohibited by law.

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, § 3918; Code 1868, § 3942; Code 1873, § 4018; Code 1882, § 4018; Penal Code 1895, § 1219; Penal Code 1910, § 1300; Code 1933, § 50-111.

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