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2018 Georgia Code 15-2-47 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)

O.C.G.A. 15-2-47 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 15-2-47

TITLE 15 COURTS

Section 2. Supreme Court, 15-2-1 through 15-2-47.

ARTICLE 2 CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT

15-2-47. Attorneys liable for costs.

Every attorney who argues or presents a case to the Supreme Court is liable to the clerk for costs except in an indigency case.

(Laws 1845, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 451; Code 1863, § 218; Code 1868, § 212; Code 1873, § 225; Code 1882, § 225; Civil Code 1895, § 5513; Civil Code 1910, § 6125; Code 1933, § 24-4106.)

Cross references.

- Bill of costs, payment of costs, filing of affidavit of indigence, O.C.G.A. § 5-6-4.

Legal defense of indigents generally, Ch. 12, T. 17.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Purpose of Code section.

- It is the purpose of this Code section to make the collection of costs due in Supreme Court reasonably certain. Sigman v. Austin, 112 Ga. 570, 37 S.E. 894 (1901).

Cross-bill of exceptions.

- Costs are taxed against attorney for plaintiff in error in cross-bill of exceptions (see now O.C.G.A. §§ 5-6-49 and5-6-50). Kehler & Bros. v. G.W. Jack Mfg. Co., 55 Ga. 639 (1876); In re Kenan, 109 Ga. 819, 35 S.E. 312 (1900).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 15A Am. Jur. 2d, Clerks of Court, § 29.

C.J.S.

- 21 C.J.S., Courts, § 342.

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