O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-2-47 (2019)

Attorneys liable for costs

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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

History

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.

Annotations

Cross references. - Bill of costs, payment of costs, filing of affidavit of indigence, § 5-6-4. Legal defense of indigents generally, T. 17, C. 12.

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 and 5-6-50). 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, § 339.

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