Georgia Code, Title 9, Chapter 4 - Declaratory Judgments

• § 9-4-1 - Purpose and Construction of Chapter
  The purpose of this chapter is to settle and afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status, and other legal relations;...
• § 9-4-2 - Declaratory Judgments Authorized; Force and Effect
  (a) In cases of actual controversy, the respective superior courts of this state shall have power, upon petition or other appropriate pleading, to declare...
• § 9-4-3 - Further Relief; Interlocutory Extraordinary Relief to Preserve Status Quo
  (a) Further plenary relief, legal or equitable, including but not limited to damages, injunction, mandamus, or quo warranto, may be sought in a petition...
• § 9-4-4 - Declaratory Judgments Involving Fiduciaries
  (a) Without limiting the generality of Code Sections 9-4-2, 9-4-3, 9-4-5 through 9-4-7, and 9-4-9, any person interested as or through an executor, administrator,...
• § 9-4-5 - Filing and Service; Time of Trial; Drawing of Jury
  A proceeding instituted under this chapter shall be filed and served as are other cases in the superior courts of this state and may...
• § 9-4-6 - Submission of Fact Issues to Jury
  When a declaration of right or the granting of further relief based thereon involves the determination of issues of fact triable by a jury...
• § 9-4-7 - Only Parties Affected; When Municipality Made Party; When Attorney General Served and Heard
  (a) No declaration shall prejudice the rights of persons not parties to the proceeding.(b) In any proceeding involving the validity of a municipal ordinance...
• § 9-4-8 - When Court May Refuse Declaratory Judgment
  The court may refuse to render or enter a declaratory judgment or decree where the judgment or decree, if rendered or entered, would not...
• § 9-4-9 - Costs
  In any proceeding under this chapter the court may make such award or division of costs as may seem equitable and just.
• § 9-4-10 - Equity Jurisdiction Not Impaired
  Nothing in this chapter is intended to impair the equity jurisdiction of the superior courts of the state.

Last modified: October 14, 2016