§ 9-11-82.Jurisdiction and venue unaffected

This one-sentence section is a savings clause: it keeps the Civil Practice Act — a chapter about how a case proceeds — from being read to change either where a court has power to hear a case or where a case may properly be filed. It states plainly that the chapter is not to be construed to extend or limit the jurisdiction of the courts or the venue of actions.

The line matters because the Act’s procedural machinery — broad joinder rules, liberal amendment, expansive discovery — could otherwise tempt an argument that some provision implicitly enlarges a court’s reach or relaxes venue requirements. This section forecloses that argument in both directions: the chapter can’t be used to stretch jurisdiction or venue beyond what other law provides, and it can’t be used to cut off jurisdiction or venue that other law grants. Georgia’s separate venue statutes, including the provisions governing multiple codefendants in different counties, keep operating exactly as written.