Georgia Code, Title 9, Chapter 10, Article 7 - Continuances

• § 9-10-150 - Grounds for Continuance -- Attendance of Party or Attorney in General Assembly
  A member of the General Assembly who is a party to or the attorney for a party to a case, or any member of...
• § 9-10-151 - Grounds for Continuance -- Attendance At Board of Regents or Education Meeting
  Should any member of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia or any member of the State Board of Education be...
• § 9-10-152 - Grounds for Continuance -- Attendance At Meeting of Board of Human Services or Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities
  Should any member of the Board of Human Services or the Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities be engaged, at the time of...
• § 9-10-153 - Grounds for Continuance -- Service in National Guard; Oath of Party or Statement of Counsel
  It shall be the duty of any judge of a court of this state, on or without motion, to continue any case in the...
• § 9-10-154 - Grounds for Continuance -- Party Providentially Prevented From Attendance; Statement of Counsel
  If either party is providentially prevented from attending the trial of a case, and the counsel of the absent party will state in his...
• § 9-10-155 - Grounds for Continuance -- Illness or Absence of Counsel; Oath of Party
  The illness or absence, from providential cause, of counsel where there is but one, or of the leading counsel where there are more than...
• § 9-10-156 - Grounds for Continuance -- Occupation of Counsel As Attorney General in Aid of General Assembly
  When any case pending in the courts of this state in which the Attorney General is of counsel is scheduled to be called for...
• § 9-10-157 - When Amending Party Granted Continuance
  The party amending pleadings or other proceedings in any of the courts of this state shall not be entitled to delay or continuance on...
• § 9-10-158 - Continuance to Enable Opposite Party to Meet Amendment; When Charged to Amending Party
  When a pleading is amended, if the opposite party makes oath or his counsel states in his place that he is surprised and not...
• § 9-10-159 - Legislator Attending General Assembly Excused As Witness; Deposition in Civil Case
  Any person summoned as a witness in any case shall be excused by the judge from attending the court by reason of his attendance...
• § 9-10-160 - Continuance for Absence of Witness; What Application to Show
  All applications for continuances upon the ground of the absence of a witness shall show to the court: (1) That the witness is absent;...
• § 9-10-161 - Denial of Continuance for Absence of Witness or Testimony Where Opposite Party Makes Admission
  No continuance shall be allowed in any court on account of the absence of a witness or for the purpose of procuring testimony when...
• § 9-10-162 - Continuance After Case Sent Back by Appellate Court
  When any case is sent back for trial by the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals, the same shall be in order for...
• § 9-10-163 - Continuance of Appeals Case
  No appeal case shall be continued more than twice by the same party, except for providential cause, for which it may be continued as...
• § 9-10-164 - Continuances for One Term Only
  A continuance requested by a party in a pending case in any court shall not be granted for longer than one term.
• § 9-10-165 - Case Not Reached Continued
  A case not reached at the trial term stands over as continued.
• § 9-10-166 - Diligence to Be Shown by Applicant for Continuance
  In all cases, the party making an application for a continuance must show that he has used due diligence.
• § 9-10-167 - Continuance in Discretion of Court; Countershowing to Motion for Continuance
  (a) All applications for continuances are addressed to the sound legal discretion of the court and, if not expressly provided for, shall be granted...
• § 9-10-168 - When Postponement Substituted for Continuance
  No continuance shall be granted in any of the courts in this state which have a continuous session for 30 days or more, over...
• § 9-10-169 - Announcement and Docketing of Continuance
  Continuances of cases in the superior, state, county, and city courts and the dates thereof shall be entered on the docket. Upon the call...

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