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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 2. ACTIONS GENERALLY · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

9-2-1. Definitions.

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

  1. As used in this title, the term:

  2. (1)

    “Action” means the judicial means of enforcing a right.#

  3. (2)

    “Civil action” means an action founded on private rights, arising either from contract or tort.#

  4. (3)

    “Penal action” means an action allowed in pursuance of public justice under particular laws.#

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, §§ 3175, 3177, 3178; Code 1868, §§ 3186, 3188, 3189; Code 1873, §§ 3251, 3253, 3254; Code 1882, §§ 3251, 3253, 3254; Civil Code 1895, §§ 4930, 4932, 4933; Civil Code 1910, §§ 5507, 5509, 5510; Code 1933, §§ 3-101, 3-102, 3-103.

Cross references

Status of “civil action” as single form of action for purposes of Civil Practice Act, § 9-11-2. For corresponding provision relating to criminal procedure, § 17-1-2.

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