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title: Title 9, Chapter 2. Actions Generally
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date: 2025
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heading: ACTIONS GENERALLY
title_heading: CIVIL PRACTICE
section_count: 31
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# Title 9, Chapter 2. Actions Generally

Title 9. Civil Practice

31 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 9-2-1, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-1.md
- 9-2-2, Actions in personam; actions in rem, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-2.md
- 9-2-3, Remedy for every right, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-3.md
- 9-2-4, Pursuit of consistent or inconsistent remedies, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-4.md
- 9-2-5, Prosecution of two simultaneous actions for same cause against same party prohibited; election; pendency of former action as defense; exception, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-5.md
- 9-2-6, Demand prior to action not necessary, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-6.md
- 9-2-7, Implied promise to pay for services or property, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-7.md
- 9-2-8, Private rights of action not created unless expressly stated, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-8.md
- 9-2-20, Parties to actions on contracts; action by beneficiary, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-20.md
- 9-2-21, Parties to actions for torts; notice to Department of Community Health for a party who has received medical assistance benefits, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-21.md
- 9-2-22, Joinder of defendants in action for deficiencies in construction, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-22.md
- 9-2-23, Separate action by tenant in common, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-23.md
- 9-2-24, Action by unincorporated association, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-24.md
- 9-2-25, Action against unincorporated association; service of process; venue; what property bound by judgment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-25.md
- 9-2-26, Prosecution of action against less than all joint contractors or copartners, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-26.md
- 9-2-27, Action against representative of joint obligor, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-27.md
- 9-2-28, Effect of action by minor alone, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-28.md
- 9-2-29, Plaintiff in penal action, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-29.md
- 9-2-30, Substitution of plaintiff’s spouse or others in action on chose in action assigned as year’s support, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-30.md
- 9-2-40, No abatement on death of party where cause survives, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-40.md
- 9-2-41, Nonabatement of tort actions; survival of cause; no punitive damages against representative, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-41.md
- 9-2-42, Death of one or more codefendants; suggestion of record, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-42.md
- 9-2-43, No abatement where some defendants not liable, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-43.md
- 9-2-44, Effect of former recovery; pendency of former action, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-44.md
- 9-2-45, No abatement for pendency of action in another state, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-45.md
- 9-2-46, Institution of action on same cause in other state; setting case in this state; postponement limited, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-46.md
- 9-2-47, Precedence of first filed informer’s action; abatement of others, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-47.md
- 9-2-60, Dismissal for want of prosecution; costs; recommencement within six months, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-60.md
- 9-2-61, Renewal of case after dismissal, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-61.md
- 9-2-62, Retraxit and dismissal or discontinuance distinguished, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-62.md
- 9-2-63, Affidavit of indigence for renewal of action, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/9-2-63.md