O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 9-4-10 (2019)

Equity jurisdiction not impaired

✓ 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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Nothing in this chapter is intended to impair the equity jurisdiction of the superior courts of the state or of the Georgia State-wide Business Court.

History

Ga. L. 1945, p. 137, § 10; Ga. L. 2019, p. 845, § 3-3/HB 239.

Annotations

Law reviews. For article on the 2019 amendment of

this Code section, see 36 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 1 (2019).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Limits on declaratory judgment not applicable to petition for equitable relief. - Rule that courts generally will not entertain an action for declaratory judgment as to questions which may be

determined in a pending action is not applicable when the petitioners are seeking equitable relief. Todd v. Conner, 220 Ga. 173, 137 S.E.2d 614, 1964 Ga. LEXIS 480 (1964).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 22A Am. Jur. 2d, Declaratory Judgments, § 45 et seq.

C.J.S. 26 C.J.S., § 117.

Declaratory

Judgments,