O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 9-10-157 (2019)

When amending party granted continuance

✓ 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 party amending pleadings or other proceedings in any of the courts of this state shall not be entitled to delay or continuance on account of the amendment, except by leave of the court to enable him to make the amendment.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3449; Code 1868, § 3469; Code 1873, § 3520; Code 1882,

§ 3520; Civil Code 1895, § 5127; Civil Code 1910, § 5713; Code 1933, § 81-1408.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS The grant of a continuance is within the sound discretion of the trial court for the purpose of amending an affidavit; thus, in a summary judgment proceeding, a continuance may be denied

absent a showing of due diligence by the applicant. Landers v. Georgia Baptist Medical Ctr., 175 Ga. App. 500, 333 S.E.2d 884, 1985 Ga. App. LEXIS 2150 (1985).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 17 Am. Jur. 2d, Continuance, §§ 10 et seq., 80.

C.J.S. 17 C.J.S., Continuances, § 31.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1985–1985 · leading case: Landers v. Georgia Baptist Med. Ctr., 333 S.E.2d 884 (Ga. Ct. App. 1985).

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Landers v. Georgia Baptist Med. Ctr., 333 S.E.2d 884 (Ga. Ct. App. 1985). · cites it 2× “But, even with that accomplished, the affidavit would not be admissible when couched in verbiage applying a local standard, and without clearly identifying the vague and nebulous “other pertinent documentation supplied by her attorneys.”

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