§ 9-5-1.For what purposes injunctions may be issued

This section lays the foundation for injunctive relief in Georgia. It tells courts sitting in equity what an injunction can reach: proceedings pending in another court or in the same court, a tort that has already happened or is about to happen, and any other act by a private individual or corporation that crosses the line into illegality or offends equity and good conscience.

Read closely, the final clause — “which is illegal or contrary to equity and good conscience and for which no adequate remedy is provided at law” — attaches to that third, catch-all category of conduct, not to the first two. For an act to fall within this section’s third category, a party has to show it is both wrongful and one for which money damages or some other legal remedy would not fix the problem. Georgia courts also treat the lack of an adequate remedy at law as a hallmark of equitable relief more generally, including when weighing whether to restrain proceedings or a tort, but that broader principle comes from equity doctrine as a whole rather than from this section’s own wording.

In practice, this is the statute a party points to when arguing that equity has jurisdiction over a dispute at all. Once a court agrees an injunction is available in principle, the more particular questions — how urgent the harm is, whether a bond is required, how much notice the other side gets — get worked out under Georgia’s broader civil practice rules rather than this chapter.