Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

9-14-21. Costs of proceedings.

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The judge hearing the return to a writ of habeas corpus may in his discretion award the costs of the proceeding against either party and may order execution to issue therefor by the clerk.

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, § 3929; Code 1868, § 3952; Code 1873, § 4028; Code 1882, § 4028; Penal Code 1895, § 1231; Penal Code 1910, § 1312; Code 1933, § 50-125.

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