O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 9-2-47 (2019)

Precedence of first filed informer’s action; abatement of others

✓ 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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In the case of actions by informers to recover any fine, forfeiture, or penalty, the first filed in the clerk’s office shall have precedence for the same cause of action and the latter filed actions shall abate.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 2837; Code 1868, § 2845; Code 1873, § 2896; Code 1882, § 2896; Civil Code 1895, § 3740; Civil Code 1910, § 4334; Code 1933, § 3-606.

Annotations

Cross references. Time limitations on bringing of actions by informers to recover fine, forfeiture, or penalty, § 9-3-28.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 1 Am. Jur. 2d, Abatement, Survival, and Revival, § 12 et seq. C.J.S. 1 C.J.S., Abatement and Revival, §§ 24, 44 et seq. ALR. Statute requiring filing of formal notice of lis pendens in certain classes of cases as

affecting common-law doctrine of lis pendens in other cases, 10 A.L.R. 306. Action or suit as abating mandamus proceeding or vice versa, 37 A.L.R. 1432. Abatement by pendency of another action as affected by addition or omission of parties defendant in second suit, 44 A.L.R. 806.

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