O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-6-52 (2019)

Practice of law restricted

✓ 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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The clerks of the superior courts are prohibited from practicing law in their own or another’s name, as a partner or otherwise, in any court except in their own case.

History

Laws 1799, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 574; Code 1863, § 250; Code 1868, § 244; Ga. L. 1871-72, p. 23, § 1; Code 1873, § 256; Code 1882, § 256; Civil Code 1895, § 4348; Civil Code 1910, § 4879; Code 1933, § 24-2702.

Annotations

Cross references. - Regulation of

practice of law generally, § 15-19-50 et seq.

Law reviews. - For article surveying legislative and judicial developments in Georgia local government law for 1978-79, see 31 Mercer L. Rev. 155 (1979).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS This section does not apply to county court clerks. Blount v. Wells, 55 Ga. 282 (1875). RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 15A Am. Jur. 2d, Clerks of Court, § 20 et seq.