§ 9-11-84.Forms

The Civil Practice Act relies on notice pleading — a short, plain statement of the claim — rather than the detailed, technical pleading Georgia practice once required. This section endorses a set of sample forms, found at Code Sections 9-11-101 through 9-11-132, as sufficient under the chapter, meaning a pleading modeled on one of them satisfies the Act’s requirements.

The section explains why the forms exist at all: they are intended to indicate the simplicity and brevity of statement the chapter contemplates. Rather than describe the pleading standard only in the abstract, the Act shows it by example, walking through sample complaints and answers for a range of common claims. Individual form sections elsewhere in the chapter describe themselves as models a pleading “may” follow, so the forms function as illustrations of what suffices rather than as mandatory language a drafter must copy word for word.

Among those sample forms, Code Section 9-11-118 supplies a form of complaint for interpleader and declaratory relief, giving practitioners a concrete template for those particular kinds of claims.