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title: O.C.G.A. § 9-3-97. Limitations extended for counterclaims and cross-claims.
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# O.C.G.A. § 9-3-97. Limitations extended for counterclaims and cross-claims.

The limitations of time within which various actions may be commenced and pursued within this state to enforce the rights of the parties are extended, only insofar as the enforcement of rights which may be instituted by way of counterclaim and cross-claim, so as to allow parties, up to and including the last day upon which the answer or other defensive pleadings should have been filed, to commence the prosecution and enforcement of rights by way of counterclaim and cross-claim, provided that the final date allowed by such limitations for the commencement of such actions shall not have expired prior to filing of the main action.

## History

Ga. L. 1964, p. 165, § 1; Ga. L. 1967, p. 226, § 37.

## Cross References

Counterclaims and cross-claims generally, § 9-11-13.

## Law Reviews

For article, “The 1967 Amendments to the Georgia Civil Practice Act and the Appellate Procedure Act,” see 3 Ga. St. B.J. 383 (1967).