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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

9-6-25. Loss prerequisite to enforcing private right.

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  1. In order for a plaintiff to enforce a private right by mandamus he must show pecuniary loss for which he cannot be compensated in damages.

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, § 64-105.

Other notes

History of Section.
The language of this Code section is derived in part from the decisions in Atlantic Ice & Coal Corp. v. Town of Decatur, 154 Ga. 882, 115 S.E. 912 (1923), and Board of Comm’rs v. Montgomery, 170 Ga. 361, 153 S.E. 34 (1930).

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