2021 Georgia Code
Title 9 - Civil Practice
Chapter 11 - Civil Practice Act
Article 1 - Scope of Rules and Form of Action
§ 9-11-2. One Form of Action

There shall be one form of action, to be known as "civil action."

(Ga. L. 1966, p. 609, § 2.)

- Definition of "civil action" for purposes of title generally, § 9-2-1.

- For provisions of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 2, and annotations pertaining thereto, see 28 U.S.C.

- For article surveying developments in Georgia real property law from mid-1980 through mid-1981, see 33 Mercer L. Rev. 219 (1981). For annual survey of administrative law, see 38 Mercer L. Rev. 17 (1986). For article, "The Civil Jurisdiction of State and Magistrate Courts," see 24 Ga. St. B.J. 29 (1987).

This section furnishes a single uniform procedure by which a litigant may present a litigant's claim in an orderly manner to a court empowered to give the litigant whatever relief is appropriate and just; the substantive and remedial principles that applied prior to it are not changed. Burnham v. Lynn, 235 Ga. 207, 219 S.E.2d 111 (1975).

Jurisdictional distinctions between law and equity remain. Burnham v. Lynn, 235 Ga. 207, 219 S.E.2d 111 (1975).

Cited in Adler v. Ormond, 117 Ga. App. 600, 161 S.E.2d 435 (1968); Times-Journal, Inc. v. Jonquil Broadcasting Co., 226 Ga. 673, 177 S.E.2d 64 (1970); Owens v. Cobb County, 230 Ga. 707, 198 S.E.2d 846 (1973); Caito v. State, 130 Ga. App. 831, 204 S.E.2d 765 (1974); Sikes v. Sikes, 233 Ga. 97, 209 S.E.2d 641 (1974); McGarvey v. Board of Zoning Appeals, 243 Ga. 714, 256 S.E.2d 781 (1979); Roe v. Doe, 246 Ga. 138, 268 S.E.2d 901 (1980); McNeal v. Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, Inc., 249 Ga. 662, 293 S.E.2d 331 (1982); Pack v. Mahan, 294 Ga. 496, 755 S.E.2d 126 (2014).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 1 Am. Jur. 2d, Actions, §§ 18, 19. 27A Am. Jur. 2d, Equity, § 4. 32 Am. Jur. 2d, Federal Courts, §§ 17, 19, 20.

- 1A C.J.S., Actions, §§ 1 et seq., 84. 35A C.J.S., Federal Civil Procedure, §§ 34, 35, 40, 41.