Georgia Code, Title 5, Chapter 6, Article 1 - General Provisions

• § 5-6-1 - Appearance Before Court of Interested Third Parties
  When a case is set for a hearing before the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals and there are parties besides the plaintiffs...
• § 5-6-2 - Disposition of Transcript in Appellate Court
  The transcript of the record shall not be recorded by the clerk of the appellate court but shall be carefully labeled and filed so...
• § 5-6-3 - Filing of Briefs on Court Order Where Cases Not Disposed of During Term; Additional Argument; Effect of Failure to Comply With Order
  (a) Whenever the appellate court may be unable to dispose of all cases on its docket for any term before the time fixed by...
• § 5-6-4 - Bill of Costs; Payment of Costs; Exceptions to Payment; Prerequisite to Receipt of Application for Appeal or Brief by Clerk
  (a) The bill of costs for every application to the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari or for applications for appeals filed in...
• § 5-6-5 - Entry of Judgment for Costs on Reversal
  If there is a judgment of reversal, the appellant shall be entitled to a judgment for the amount of the costs in the appellate...
• § 5-6-6 - Damages for Frivolous Appeal
  When in the opinion of the court the case was taken up for delay only, 10 percent damages may be awarded by the appellate...
• § 5-6-7 - No Decisions to Be Rendered Ore Tenus; Publication of Judgments and Opinions
  No decision shall be rendered ore tenus. The reporter shall publish in the official reports of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals...
• § 5-6-8 - Entry of Decision on Minutes; Directions to Lower Court
  The decision in each case shall be entered on the minutes. It shall be within the power of the appellate court rendering the decision...
• § 5-6-9 - Transmittal of Opinion to Lower Court Generally
  (a) Where a further hearing of the case is to follow in the lower court, the clerk of the appellate court shall transmit a...
• § 5-6-10 - Transmittal of Remittitur to Lower Court Generally
  The decision of the appellate court and any direction awarded in the case shall be certified by the clerk to the court below, under...
• § 5-6-11 - Issuance of Remittitur in Cases Involving Death Penalty
  In all cases where the Supreme Court of Georgia has affirmed the imposition of the death penalty in a case or has affirmed the...
• § 5-6-12 - Cessation of Supersedeas and Issuance of Execution Upon Affirmance of Judgment of Lower Court
  If the judgment of the lower court is affirmed, upon the filing of the remittitur with the clerk of the court below, the supersedeas...
• § 5-6-13 - Granting of Supersedeas in Cases of Contempt
  (a) A judge of any trial court or tribunal having the power to adjudge and punish for contempt shall grant to any person convicted...
• § 5-6-14 - Execution of Extraordinary Orders of Supreme Court
  When judgments are rendered in the Supreme Court in injunction or other extraordinary cases, the judges of the superior courts may give immediate effect...
• § 5-6-15 - Certiorari From Supreme Court to Court of Appeals
  The writ of certiorari shall lie from the Supreme Court to the Court of Appeals as provided by Article VI, Section VI, Paragraph V...
• § 5-6-16 - Time for Appeal by Representative Where Party Dies After Trial; Effect of Entry of Appeal and of Failure to Enter Appeal; When Appeal Heard
  (a) When either the plaintiff or the defendant dies after a case has been tried and before the expiration of the time within which...

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