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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

9-14-6. Form of writ.

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

  1. The writ of habeas corpus may be substantially as follows:

  2. IN THE COURT OF COUNTY

  3. STATE OF GEORGIA

  4. A.B., )

  5. Petitioner )

  6. )

  7. v. ) Civil action

  8. )

  9. C.D., ) File no.

  10. Respondent )

  11. WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

  12. To C.D.:

  13. You are hereby commanded to produce the body of , alleged to be illegally detained by you, together with the cause of the detention, before me on the day of , , at :

  14. .M., then and there to be disposed of as the law directs.

  15. Given under my hand and official signature, this day of , .

  16. Judge

Reading note: the printed indentation of one or more subsections was ambiguous, so their nesting is the extractor's best reading. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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, § 3913; Code 1868, § 3937; Code 1873, § 4013; Code 1882, § 4013; Penal Code 1895, § 1214; Penal Code 1910, § 1295; Code 1933, § 50-106; Ga. L. 1999, p. 81, § 9.

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

Text read from T09 Ch12-16 (V7A) 2015.pdf, Volume V7A, 2015 edition, pages 325 to 326; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 c88496cf9e57.