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Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 6. EXTRAORDINARY WRITS · Article 2. MANDAMUS

9-6-24. What interest required to enforce public right.

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

  1. Where the question is one of public right and the object is to procure the enforcement of a public duty, no legal or special interest need be shown, but it shall be sufficient that a plaintiff is interested in having the laws executed and the duty in question enforced.

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

Code 1933, § 64-104.

Law reviews

For article, “A Taxing Exception: Southern LNG, Inc. v. MacGinnitie’s Narrow Interpretation of the Mandamus Exception,” see 66 Mercer L. Rev. 855 (2015). For annual survey of administrative law, see 67 Mercer L. Rev. 1 (2015).

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

Text read from t9-ch1-10-(v6)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V6, 2023 edition, pages 534 to 535; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 ea8a520ad52f.