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O.C.G.A. § 15-2-17 (2019)

Rules for regulating Supreme Court’s proceedings

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The Supreme Court shall have full power and authority to make all rules, not in conflict with the Constitution or laws of this state, as may be necessary for carrying the Constitution into effect and regulating the court’s proceedings thereunder. To these ends it may, by rules, provide and declare when the court shall sit, how its minutes shall be kept, and how the cases upon its dockets shall be apportioned; and it generally may make all regulations as to practice and procedure which experience may show to be convenient and expedient for the proper transaction of its business, with due regard to the rights of the parties and counsel concerned.

History

Ga. L. 1896, p. 42, § 4; Civil Code 1910, § 6117; Code 1933, § 24-4016; Ga. L. 1983, p. 956, § 4.

Annotations

Cross references. - Rules of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Editor’s notes. - The Supreme Court

has adopted rules pursuant to this Code section, entitled ‘‘Rules of the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia.’’

Law reviews. - For comment on Crider v. State, 115 Ga. App. 347, 154 S.E.2d 743 (1967), holding that enumer-

ated errors must be supported by specific reference to the trial transcript, see 4 Ga. St. B. J. 265 (1967). JUDICIAL DECISIONS Time for filing enumeration of errors and briefs is fixed by court rules and not by law alone. Horton v. Western

Contracting Corp., 113 Ga. App. 613, 149 S.E.2d 542 (1966).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2001–2001 · leading case: Massaline v. Williams, 554 S.E.2d 720 (Ga. 2001).
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Massaline v. Williams, 554 S.E.2d 720 (Ga. 2001). · cites it 4× “See OCGA § 15-2-17, which provides that our rules must not "conflict with the Constitution or laws of this state.”
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