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O.C.G.A. § 15-9-120

Definitions

— Code 1981, § 15-9-120, enacted by Ga

Selecting the Jury — Defense View, 5 Am. Jur. Trials 247.

Use of Jury Consultant in Civil Cases, 49 Am. Jur. Trials 407.

As used in this article, the term: (1) “Civil case” means those civil matters:

(A) Over which the judge of the probate court exercises judicial powers;

(B) Within the original, exclusive, or general subject matter jurisdiction of the probate court; and

(C) Which, if not for this article and Code Section 5-6-33, could be appealed to superior court for a de novo investigation with the right to a jury trial under Code Sections 5-3-2 and 5-3-29.

(2) “Probate court” means a probate court of a county having a population of more than 90,000 persons according to the United States decennial census of 2010 or any future such census in which the judge thereof has been admitted to the practice of law for at least seven years.

Current official text: Official Code of Georgia Annotated (LexisNexis). Digitized from the Internet Archive scan of the OCGA. Reproduced from public-domain Georgia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.