§ 9-12-119.Situations not covered by article

This closing Code section is a savings clause. It states that the article does not prevent the recognition, under principles of comity or otherwise, of a foreign-country judgment that falls outside the article's own scope. In other words, the article supplies one path to recognition, but not the only one available under Georgia law.

That matters because the article's own applicability rules leave real gaps. Judgments for taxes, fines or other penalties, and divorce, support, maintenance, or other domestic-relations awards fall outside the article under Code Section 9-12-112, even when they involve money. So do foreign-country judgments that do not grant or deny recovery of a sum of money at all, such as an injunction or a declaratory judgment, since the article's threshold test in that same section is framed around monetary judgments.

For all of those excluded categories, this section preserves whatever avenues for recognition already existed apart from the article — comity being the traditional doctrine under which courts extend recognition to foreign judgments as a matter of respect and reciprocity, separate from any statute. The article, in short, occupies its own defined territory without displacing the broader legal landscape around recognizing foreign-country judgments generally.