§ 9-11-85.Short title

Closing out the chapter it names, this section provides that Chapter 11 of Title 9 may be known and cited as the “Georgia Civil Practice Act.” It adds no substantive rule of its own — it exists so courts, lawyers, and other statutes have a single, recognizable name for the whole body of procedure this chapter contains, rather than having to cite “Chapter 11 of Title 9” every time.

The short title dates to the chapter’s original 1966 enactment, the same legislative act that created the modern Civil Practice Act itself, and it has never needed amendment since. Read together with Code Section 9-11-1, which opens the chapter by stating its scope and rules of construction, this section serves as the bookend that gives the whole FRCP-modeled procedural core its lasting name in Georgia practice.