O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-6-16 (2019)

No authority when absent from state

✓ 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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No judge of the superior courts shall have authority to perform any judicial act required of him by law when he is beyond the jurisdiction of this state.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 248; Code 1868, § 242; Code 1873, § 253; Code 1882, § 253; Civil Code 1895, § 4330;

Civil Code 1910, § 4859; Code 1933, § 24-2627.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Judge of a superior court of this state has no authority to do any official act required by the laws of this state when

the judge is not within the jurisdiction of this state. Buchanan v. Jones, 12 Ga. 612 (1853).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 20 Am. Jur. 2d, Courts, § 16 et seq. C.J.S. - 48A C.J.S., Judges, §§ 63, 65.