History. Laws 1799, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 503; Code 1863, § 3636; Code 1868, § 3661; Code 1873, § 3712; Code 1882, § 3712; Civil Code 1895, § 5474; Civil Code 1910, § 6079; Code 1933, § 70-102; Ga. L. 1986, p. 982, § 4; Ga. L. 2000, p. 862, § 1; Ga. L. 2019, p. 845, § 2-1/HB 239.
The 2019 amendment, effective May 7, 2019, inserted “, the Georgia State-wide Business Court,” near the beginning of subsection (a).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 1986, p. 982, § 25, not codified by the General Assembly, provided that that Act would apply to all cases filed on or after July 1, 1986.
Law reviews.
For annual survey on trial practice and procedure, see 38 Mercer L. Rev. 383 (1986).
For survey of 1995 Eleventh Circuit cases on trial practice and procedure, see 47 Mercer L. Rev. 907 (1996).
For annual survey article, “ ‘Garbage In, Garbage Out’: The Litigation Implosion Over the Unconstitutional Organization and Jurisdiction of the City Court of Atlanta,” see 52 Mercer L. Rev. 49 (2000).
For article on the 2019 amendment of this Code section, see 36 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 1 (2019).