A judgment may be amended by order of the court to conform to the verdict upon which it is predicated, even after an execution issues.
§ 9-12-14.Amendment of judgment to conform to verdict
Chapter 12. Verdict and Judgment · Article 1. General Provisions · Last amended 1933 · Last verified July 17, 2026
In one sentenceO.C.G.A. § 9-12-14 lets a court amend a judgment by order to conform to the verdict it is based on, even after an execution has already issued on that judgment.
Full Text of § 9-12-14
Plain-English Summary
Judgments do not always come out matching the verdict they are supposed to reflect, and this section gives the court a way to fix that after the fact. By order of the court, a judgment may be amended to conform to the verdict on which it is predicated.
What stands out is the timing the statute allows: the amendment can happen even after an execution issues. A judgment already being enforced is not beyond correction, and a mismatched judgment does not have to wait for some later proceeding before the court aligns it with what the jury found.
This section is the working half of the mandatory conformity rule stated earlier in the article — judgment and execution shall conform to the verdict. When they do not, this is the mechanism for bringing the judgment back into line, and because execution is meant to track the judgment, correcting the judgment under this section can carry consequences for any execution already issued on it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What must a judgment conform to under this section?
The verdict on which the judgment is predicated.
Who has authority to amend the judgment to achieve that conformity?
The court, acting by order.
Is this amendment power cut off once an execution has issued?
No. The statute expressly allows the amendment even after an execution issues.
Is amending the judgment mandatory whenever it doesn't conform to the verdict?
No. The statute says the judgment “may” be amended, leaving it to the court's order.
How does this section relate to amending the execution itself?
Once a judgment is amended under this section, the execution enforcing it may in turn need amendment to conform to the corrected judgment.
Amendment History
Orig. Code 1863, § 3424; Code 1868, § 3444; Code 1873, § 3494; Code 1882, § 3494; Civil Code 1895, § 5113; Ga. L. 1902, p. 55, § 1; Civil Code 1910, § 5697; Code 1933, § 110-311.
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Official Code of Georgia Annotated, Georgia Code Revision Commission / LexisNexis. Last verified July 17, 2026.
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