2024 CODE OF GEORGIA
Title 15 - COURTS (§§ 15-1-1 — 15-25-3)
Chapter 6 - SUPERIOR COURTS (§§ 15-6-1 — 15-6-100)
Article 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS (§§ 15-6-1 — 15-6-36)
Section 15-6-8 - Jurisdiction and powers of superior courts

The superior courts have authority:

• (1) To exercise original, exclusive, or concurrent jurisdiction, as the case may be, of all causes, both civil and criminal, granted to them by the Constitution and laws;

• (2) To exercise the powers of a court of equity;

• (3) To exercise appellate jurisdiction from judgments of the probate or magistrate courts as provided by law;

• (4) To exercise a general supervision over all inferior tribunals and to review and correct, in the manner prescribed by law, the judgments of:
  • (A) Magistrates;
  • (B) Municipal courts or councils;
  • (C) Any inferior judicature;
  • (D) Any person exercising judicial powers; and
  • (E) Judges of the probate courts, except in cases touching the probate of wills and the granting of letters of administration, in which a jury must be impaneled;

• (5) To punish contempt by fines not exceeding $1,000.00, by imprisonment not exceeding 20 days, or both; and

• (6) To exercise such other powers, not contrary to the Constitution, as are or may be given to such courts by law.

Amended by 2013 Ga. Laws 173,§ 1, eff. 7/1/2013.