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Home » US Law » 2022 Georgia Code » Title 9 - Civil Practice » Chapter 11 - Civil Practice Act » Article 6 - Trials » § 9-11-39. Consent to Trial by Court; Jury Trial on Court Order
  1. The parties or their attorneys of record, by written stipulation filed with the court or by an oral stipulation made in open court and entered in the record, may consent to trial by the court sitting without a jury.
  2. In all actions not triable of right by a jury, or where jury trial has been expressly waived, the court may nevertheless order a trial with a jury whose verdict will have the same effect as if trial by jury had been a matter of right or had not been waived.

History. Ga. L. 1966, p. 609, § 39.

U.S. Code.

For provisions of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 39, see 28 U.S.C.

Law reviews.

For annual survey article discussing waiver of jury trials, see 46 Mercer L. Rev. 95 (1994).

For note, “Pre-Litigation Contractual Waivers of the Right to a Jury Trial Are Unenforceable Under Georgia Law,” see 46 Mercer L. Rev. 1565 (1995).