A tort is the unlawful violation of a private legal right other than a mere breach of contract, express or implied. A tort may also be the violation ...

In general, ordinary diligence is that degree of care which is exercised by ordinarily prudent persons under the same or similar circumstances. As applied to the preservation of ...

In general, extraordinary diligence is that extreme care and caution which very prudent and thoughtful persons exercise under the same or similar circumstances. As applied to the preservation ...

In general, slight diligence is that degree of care which every man of common sense, however inattentive he may be, exercises under the same or similar circumstances. As ...

The term 'due care,' when used in reference to a child of tender years, is such care as the child´s mental and physical capacities enable him to exercise ...

When the law requires a person to perform an act for the benefit of another or to refrain from doing an act which may injure another, although no ...

Injury suffered in common with the community, though to a greater extent, will not give a right of action to an individual for the infraction of some public ...

Private duties may arise from statute or from relations created by contract, express or implied. The violation of a private duty, accompanied by damage, shall give a right ...

Every person may recover for torts committed to himself, his wife, his child, his ward, or his servant. ...

If a tort shall be committed upon the person or reputation of the wife, the husband or wife may recover therefor; if the wife shall be living separate ...

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Code section, no privity is necessary to support a tort action; but, if the tort results from the violation of a ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'product seller' means a person who, in the course of a business conducted for the purpose leases or sells ...

By ratification of a tort committed for his own benefit, the ratifier becomes as liable as if he had commanded that it be committed. A person ratifying a ...

A physical injury done to another shall give a right of action to the injured party, whatever may be the intention of the person causing the injury, unless ...

Any violent injury or illegal attempt to commit a physical injury upon a person is a tort for which damages may be recovered. ...

A husband shall have a right of action against another for abducting or harboring his wife. Furnishing shelter and food to a wife driven from her home by ...

The seduction of a daughter, unmarried and living with her parent, whether followed by pregnancy or not, shall give a right of action to the father or to ...

Adultery, alienation of affections, or criminal conversation with a wife or husband shall not give a right of action to the person´s spouse. Rights of action for adultery, ...

(a) The custodial parent or parents shall have a right of action against any person who shall sell or furnish alcoholic beverages to that parent´s underage child for ...

When trust or confidence is reposed in a person in consideration of the payment or promise of a reward to him, negligence in the person trusted which results ...

(a) A person serving with or without compensation as a member, director, or trustee, or as an officer of the board without compensation, of any nonprofit hospital or ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Compensation' does not mean or include any gift, any reimbursement for any reasonable expense incurred ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Child passenger safety technician' means a person who holds a current certification as a child ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Owner' means a person other than a secured party who has title to personal property ...

The owner of a vessel shall be liable for any injury or damage occasioned by the negligent operation of the vessel, whether the negligence consists of a violation ...

Any person who knowingly or negligently sells unwholesome provisions of any kind to another person, the defect being unknown to the purchaser, by the use of which damage ...

Any person who knowingly or negligently, by himself or his agent, sells adulterated drugs or alcoholic beverages to another person, by the use of which damage accrues to ...

If a vender of drugs and medicines, by himself or his agent, either knowingly or negligently furnishes the wrong article or medicine and damage accrues to the purchaser, ...

If death ensues as a result of any injury or damage in any case arising under Code Section 51-1-23, 51-1-24, or 51-1-25, the right of action for such ...

A person professing to practice surgery or the administering of medicine for compensation must bring to the exercise of his profession a reasonable degree of care and skill. ...

(a) The injection, transfusion, or other transfer of human whole blood, blood plasma, blood products, or blood derivatives and the transplanting or other transfer of any tissue, bones, ...

Any person, including any person licensed to practice medicine and surgery pursuant to Article 2 of Chapter 34 of Title 43 and including any person licensed to render ...

(a) Without waiving or affecting and cumulative of any existing immunity from any source, unless it is established that injuries or death were caused by gross negligence or ...

Any natural person who voluntarily and without the expectation or receipt of compensation provides services during a time of emergency and in a place of emergency as declared ...

(a) The persons described in this Code section shall be immune from civil liability for any act or omission to act related to the provision of emergency care ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Free health clinic' means a nonprofit, charitable, or eleemosynary institution or organization which voluntarily and ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Affiliate' means a person who, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'fire department' includes volunteer fire departments established pursuant to local act, ordinance, or resolution or established as nonprofit corporations ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'fire apparatus' means salvage and first-aid cars, chiefs´ cars, hose wagons, pumpers, aerial trucks, water towers, service trucks, supply ...

Teachers and other school personnel shall be immune from any civil liability for communicating information in good faith concerning drug abuse by any child to that child´s parents, ...

(a) Unless it is established that injuries or death were caused by gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct: (1) No natural person who voluntarily ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Canned food' means any food which has been commercially processed and prepared for human consumption ...

In cases arising from the wrongful or negligent operation of a motor vehicle in which the single wrongful or negligent act causes or results in both physical injuries ...

If the two causes of action specified in Code Section 51-1-32 are tried separately, the fact that a settlement has been made or that a judgment has been ...

The settlement of a claim or cause of action arising from a motor vehicle collision for property damage shall not bar or otherwise affect the prosecution of the ...

(a) No person whose interest is or may become adverse to an injured person who is confined to a hospital or health care center as a patient shall, ...

The operator of a motor vehicle owes to passengers therein the same duty of ordinary care owed to others. ...

(a) Any person who is given a polygraph examination and who suffers damages as a result of such polygraph examination having been administered in a negligent manner shall ...

(a) No student who participates in the provision of medical care or medical treatment under the supervision of a medical facility, academic institution, or doctor of medicine, as ...

A person who engages in a criminal act on property owned or leased by a political subdivision of this state and who suffers an injury as a result ...

(a) The General Assembly finds and declares that the consumption of alcoholic beverages, rather than the sale or furnishing or serving of such beverages, is the proximate cause ...

(a) Sports officials who officiate amateur athletic contests at any level of competition in this state shall not be liable to any person or entity in any civil ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Charitable organization' means any charitable unit of a religious or civic group, including those supported ...

(a) This Code section shall be known and may be cited as the 'Roller Skating Safety Act of 1993.' (b) As used in this Code ...

(a) No dental student who participates in the provision of dental care or dental treatment under the supervision of a medical facility, academic institution, or dentist, as a ...

Any person licensed to practice medicine and surgery pursuant to Article 2 of Chapter 34 of Title 43 and including any person licensed to render services ancillary thereto ...

(a) This Code section shall be known and may be cited as the 'Drug Dealer Liability Act.' (b) The General Assembly finds and declares that ...

The manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and sellers of a motor vehicle and those who, on authorization and direction of the owner or lessee, lawfully install in a prudent and ...

(a) Any claim administrator, health care advisor, private review agent, or other person or entity which administers benefits or reviews or adjusts claims under a managed care plan ...

(a) No person may maintain a cause of action pursuant to Code Section 51-1-48 unless the affected enrollee or the enrollee´s representative: (1) Has exhausted ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Broadcast' means the transmission of video or audio programming by an electronic or other signal ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Liquefied petroleum gas equipment' means a liquefied petroleum gas appliance or liquefied petroleum gas equipment. ...

(a) For the negligence of one person to be properly imputable to another, the one to whom it is imputed must stand in such a relation or privity ...

Every person shall be liable for torts committed by his wife, his child, or his servant by his command or in the prosecution and within the scope of ...

(a) Every parent or guardian having the custody and control over a minor child or children under the age of 18 shall be liable in an amount not ...

An employer generally is not responsible for torts committed by his employee when the employee exercises an independent business and in it is not subject to the immediate ...

An employer is liable for the negligence of a contractor: (1) When the work is wrongful in itself or, if done in the ordinary manner, ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Health care professional' means a professional licensed as an audiologist, chiropractor, clinical social worker, dentist, ...

If any dog, while not on the premises of its owner or the person having charge of it, kills or injures any livestock, the owner or person having ...

A person who owns or keeps a vicious or dangerous animal of any kind and who, by careless management or by allowing the animal to go at liberty, ...

Where an owner or occupier of land, by express or implied invitation, induces or leads others to come upon his premises for any lawful purpose, he is liable ...

(a) A licensee is a person who: (1) Is neither a customer, a servant, nor a trespasser; (2) Does not stand in ...

The purpose of this article is to encourage owners of land to make land and water areas available to the public for recreational purposes by limiting the owners´ ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Charge' means the admission price or fee asked in return for invitation or permission to enter or ...

Except as specifically recognized by or provided in Code Section 51-3-25, an owner of land owes no duty of care to keep the premises safe for entry or ...

Except as specifically recognized by or provided in Code Section 51-3-25, an owner of land who either directly or indirectly invites or permits without charge any person to ...

Unless otherwise agreed in writing, Code Sections 51-3-22 and 51-3-23 shall be deemed applicable to the duties and liability of an owner of land leased to the state ...

Nothing in this article limits in any way any liability which otherwise exists: (1) For willful or malicious failure to guard or warn against a dangerous ...

Nothing in this article shall be construed to: (1) Create a duty of care or ground of liability for injury to persons or property; or ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Full value of the life of the decedent, as shown by the evidence' means the full value ...

(a) The surviving spouse or, if there is no surviving spouse, a child or children, either minor or sui juris, may recover for the homicide of the spouse ...

Reserved. ...

The right to recover for the homicide of a child shall be as provided in Code Section 19-7-1. ...

(a) When there is no person entitled to bring an action for the wrongful death of a decedent under Code Section 51-4-2 or 51-4-4, the administrator or executor ...

(a) A libel is a false and malicious defamation of another, expressed in print, writing, pictures, or signs, tending to injure the reputation of the person and exposing ...

(a) Any false and malicious defamation of another in any newspaper, magazine, or periodical, tending to injure the reputation of the person and expose him to public hatred, ...

A libel is published as soon as it is communicated to any person other than the party libeled. ...

(a) Slander or oral defamation consists in: (1) Imputing to another a crime punishable by law; (2) Charging a person with having ...

In all actions for printed or spoken defamation, malice is inferred from the character of the charge. However, the existence of malice may be rebutted by proof. In ...

The truth of the charge made may always be proved in justification of an alleged libel or slander. ...

The following communications are deemed privileged: (1) Statements made in good faith in the performance of a public duty; (2) Statements made ...

All charges, allegations, and averments contained in regular pleadings filed in a court of competent jurisdiction, which are pertinent and material to the relief sought, whether legally sufficient ...

In every case of privileged communications, if the privilege is used merely as a cloak for venting private malice and not bona fide in promotion of the object ...

(a) The owner, licensee, or operator of a visual or sound broadcasting station or network of stations and the agents or employees of any owner, licensee, or operator ...

(a) In any civil action for libel which charges the publication of an erroneous statement alleged to be libelous, it shall be relevant and competent evidence for either ...

(a) In any civil action for a defamatory statement which charges the visual or sound broadcast of an erroneous statement alleged to be defamatory, it shall be relevant ...

Fraud, accompanied by damage to the party defrauded, always gives a right of action to the injured party. ...

(a) Willful misrepresentation of a material fact, made to induce another to act, upon which such person acts to his injury, will give him a right of action. ...

No action shall be sustained for deceit in a representation to obtain credit for another unless the misrepresentation is in writing and is signed by the party to ...

(a) A fraud may be committed by acts as well as words. (b) One who silently stands by and permits another to purchase his property, ...

An arrest under process of law, without probable cause, when made maliciously, shall give a right of action to the party arrested. ...

Malice consists in personal spite or in a general disregard of the right consideration of mankind, directed by chance against the individual injured. ...

Lack of probable cause shall exist when the circumstances are such as to satisfy a reasonable man that the accuser had no ground for proceeding but his desire ...

The willful arrest, under civil process, of a person exempt by law from such arrest shall be deemed malicious until the contrary shall be proved. ...

False imprisonment is the unlawful detention of the person of another, for any length of time, whereby such person is deprived of his personal liberty. ...

If imprisonment is by virtue of a warrant, neither the party who procured the warrant in good faith nor the officer who executed the warrant in good faith ...

If false imprisonment is the act of several persons, they may be subject to an action jointly or separately. If jointly, all shall be responsible for the entire ...

A criminal prosecution which is carried on maliciously and without any probable cause and which causes damage to the person prosecuted shall give him a cause of action. ...

The criminal prosecution forming the basis for an action for malicious prosecution must be ended before the right of action for malicious prosecution accrues. ...

For purposes of this article, an inquiry before a committing court or a magistrate shall amount to a prosecution. ...

Lack of probable cause shall exist when the circumstances are such as to satisfy a reasonable man that the accuser had no ground for proceeding but his desire ...

A total lack of probable cause is a circumstance from which malice may be inferred; however, the inference may be rebutted by proof. ...

For consideration of the existence of probable cause, the evidence given during the criminal prosecution by the person accused of the malicious prosecution may be submitted to the ...

(a) No member of a grand jury shall be subject to an action for malicious prosecution based upon a presentment made by the grand jury. ...

Recovery in actions for malicious prosecution shall not be confined to the actual damage sustained by the accused but shall be regulated by the circumstances of each case. ...

Whenever the owner or operator of a mercantile establishment or any agent or employee of the owner or operator detains, arrests, or causes to be detained or arrested ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'antishoplifting or inventory control device' means a mechanism or other device designed and operated for the purpose of detecting ...

Whenever the owner, operator, or lessee of a motion picture exhibition facility or any agent or employee of the owner, operator, or lessee detains, arrests, or causes to ...

Any person who takes an active part in the initiation, continuation, or procurement of civil proceedings against another shall be liable for abusive litigation if such person acts: ...

(a) It shall be a complete defense to any claim for abusive litigation that the person against whom a claim of abusive litigation is asserted has voluntarily withdrawn, ...

(a) A plaintiff who prevails in an action under this article shall be entitled to all damages allowed by law as proven by the evidence, including costs and ...

(a) As a condition precedent to any claim for abusive litigation, the person injured by such act shall give written notice by registered or certified mail or statutory ...

On and after April 3, 1989, no claim other than as provided in this article or in Code Section 9-15-14 shall be allowed, whether statutory or common law, ...

Reserved. ...

The right of enjoyment of private property being an absolute right of every citizen, every act of another which unlawfully interferes with such enjoyment is a tort for ...

The bare right to possession of lands shall authorize their recovery by the owner of such right, as well as damages for the withholding of such right. ...

The bare possession of land shall authorize the possessor to recover damages from any person who wrongfully interferes with such possession in any manner. ...

The person having title to lands, if no one is in actual possession under the same title with him, may bring an action for a trespass thereon. If ...

If two persons claim to have actual possession of the same land, the person having legal title shall be deemed to be in possession and the other person ...

Damages for a continuing trespass are limited to those which have occurred before an action is commenced. Subsequent damages flowing from a continuation of the trespass give a ...

The owner of land through which nonnavigable watercourses flow is entitled to have the water in such streams come to his land in its natural and usual flow, ...

The course of a stream of water underground and its exact condition before its first use are so difficult of ascertainment that trespass may not be brought for ...

The owner of realty has title downwards and upwards indefinitely; and an unlawful interference with his rights, either below or above the surface, gives him a right of ...

The unlawful interference with a right of way or a right of common constitutes a trespass to the party entitled thereto. ...

The owner of any estate in lands may bring an action for libelous or slanderous words which falsely and maliciously impugn his title if any damage accrues to ...

The owner of personalty is entitled to its possession. Any deprivation of such possession is a tort for which an action lies. ...

Interference with the mere possession of a chattel, even if the possession is without title or is wrongful, shall give a right of action to the possessor, except ...

Any unlawful abuse of or damage done to the personal property of another constitutes a trespass for which damages may be recovered. ...

Where the possession of personalty is in a bailee, a trespass committed during the existence of the bailment shall give a right of action to the bailee for ...

A remainderman or reversioner of personalty may bring an action against a wrongdoer for any injury tending to destroy the existence or ultimate value of the property. In ...

(a) Any owner of personal property shall be authorized to bring a civil action to recover damages from any person who willfully damages the owner´s personal property or ...

If the defendant in a tort action was authorized to do the act complained of, he may plead such authorization as justification. The effect of such plea is ...

As a general rule no tort can be committed against a person consenting thereto if that consent is free, is not obtained by fraud, and is the action ...

Circumstances not amounting to justification may be pleaded in extenuation and mitigation of damages. ...

Arbitrament and award constitute a good defense to a tort action, and the rules applied to this defense in a contract action apply equally to tort actions. ...

Former recovery and the pendency of another action are good defenses in tort actions and are subject to the same rules as when applied to contracts. ...

Infancy is no defense to a tort action so long as the defendant has reached the age of discretion and accountability prescribed by Code Section 16-3-1 for criminal ...

If the plaintiff by ordinary care could have avoided the consequences to himself caused by the defendant´s negligence, he is not entitled to recover. In other cases the ...

(a) Any person employed by a licensed compressed gas dealer who provides assistance upon request of any law enforcement agency, fire department, rescue or emergency squad, or any ...

A person who is justified in threatening or using force against another under the provisions of Code Section 16-3-23, relating to the use of force in defense of ...

(a) If a tort does not amount to a crime, the person injured may consent to a satisfaction and settlement thereof. (b)(1) If a tort ...

A person committing a tort may, before or after an action is brought, tender to the person injured such an amount of damages as in his judgment will ...

(a) Damages may be either general or special, direct or consequential. (b) In any civil action, whether in tort or in contract, for the recovery ...

(a) General damages are those which the law presumes to flow from any tortious act; they may be recovered without proof of any amount. (b) ...

(a) Direct damages are those which follow immediately upon the doing of a tortious act. (b) Consequential damages are those which are the necessary and ...

Damages are given as compensation for injury; generally, such compensation is the measure of damages where an injury is of a character capable of being estimated in money. ...

(a) In a tort action in which there are aggravating circumstances, in either the act or the intention, the jury may give additional damages to deter the wrongdoer ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'punitive damages' is synonymous with the terms 'vindictive damages,' 'exemplary damages,' and other descriptions of additional damages awarded because ...

In a tort action in which the entire injury is to the peace, happiness, or feelings of the plaintiff, no measure of damages can be prescribed except the ...

In all cases, necessary expenses consequent upon an injury are a legitimate item in the estimate of damages. ...

If the damage incurred by the plaintiff is only the imaginary or possible result of a tortious act or if other and contingent circumstances preponderate in causing the ...

Damages which are the legal and natural result of the act done, though contingent to some extent, are not too remote to be recovered. However, damages traceable to ...

When a tort is committed, a contract is broken, or a duty is omitted with knowledge and for the purpose of depriving the plaintiff of certain contemplated benefits, ...

When a person is injured by the negligence of another, he must mitigate his damages as far as is practicable by the use of ordinary care and diligence. ...

(a) The question of damages is ordinarily one for the jury; and the court should not interfere with the jury´s verdict unless the damages awarded by the jury ...

It shall be lawful for the trier of fact, in determining the present value of any future earnings, annuity, or amounts, to reduce the same to the present ...

(a) Where a claimant has given written notice by registered or certified mail or statutory overnight delivery to a person against whom claim is made of a demand ...

In all cases, a person who maliciously procures an injury to be done to another, whether an actionable wrong or a breach of contract, is a joint wrongdoer ...

Except as provided in Code Section 51-12-33, where an action is brought jointly against several persons, the plaintiff may recover damages for an injury caused by any of ...

(a) Except as provided in Code Section 51-12-33, where a tortious act does not involve moral turpitude, contribution among several trespassers may be enforced just as if an ...

(a) Where an action is brought against one or more persons for injury to person or property and the plaintiff is to some degree responsible for the injury ...

Except as provided in Code Section 51-12-51, where plaintiff recovers for timber cut and carried away, the measure of damage: (1) Where defendant is a ...

(a) Every person, firm, or corporation who, without the written consent of the person holding legal title to land or to an interest in land as security for ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Administrator' means the administrator of the 'Fair Business Practices Act of 1975' appointed pursuant to subsection (a) ...

(a) No direct or indirect transfer of structured settlement payment rights shall be effective and no structured settlement obligor or annuity issuer shall be required to make any ...

(a) Any transfer agreement of structured settlement payment rights must, in addition to the other requirements of this article, be executed in writing and filed as provided in ...

(a) The provisions of this article may not be waived. (b) No payee who proposes to make a transfer of structured settlement payment rights shall ...

Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to authorize any transfer of structured settlement payment rights in contravention of applicable law or to give effect to any ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Claimant' means a person, including a decedent́s estate, who seeks or has sought recovery of ...

This chapter applies to any claim defined in this chapter as an asbestos claim or as a silica claim. ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Asbestos' means chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, tremolite asbestos, anthophyllite asbestos, actinolite asbestos, and any of these minerals that ...

(a) Prima-facie evidence of physical impairment of the exposed person as defined in paragraph (15) or (16) of Code Section 51-14-2 shall be an essential element of an ...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, with respect to any asbestos claim or silica claim not barred as of April 12, 2005, the limitations period shall not begin ...

(a) Any asbestos claim or silica claim pending in this state on April 12, 2005, shall be dismissed within 180 days of said date without prejudice unless: ...

(a) All asbestos claims and silica claims filed in this state on or after April 12, 2005, shall include a sworn information form containing the following information: ...

(a) Until such time as the trial court enters an order determining that the plaintiff has established prima-facie evidence of physical impairment, no asbestos claim or silica claim ...

(a) Notwithstanding Code Section 1-2-6 or 1-2-10, a civil action alleging an asbestos claim or silica claim may only be brought or maintained in the courts of Georgia ...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an asbestos claim or silica claim that meets the requirements of this chapter permitting a claim to be filed in this state ...

A trial court may consolidate for trial any number and type of asbestos claims or silica claims with the consent of all the parties. In the absence of ...