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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 6. EXTRAORDINARY WRITS · Article 3. PROHIBITION

9-6-42. Prohibition against executive and military officers; Governor exempt.

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

  1. The writ of prohibition will not lie to the duly inaugurated Governor, but it lies to all other executive or military officers when acting as a judicial or quasi-judicial tribunal.

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, § 3134; Code 1868, § 3146; Code 1873, § 3202; Code 1882, § 3202; Civil Code 1895, § 4877; Civil Code 1910, § 5450; Code 1933, § 64-303.

Other notes

History of Section.
The language of this Code section is derived in part from the decision in Shirley v. Gardner, 160 Ga. 338, 127 S.E. 855 (1925).

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