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The Georgia Legal System

A complete plain-language guide to Georgia

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Edition
2026 Edition
Extent
2405 pages
Language
English
ISBN
978-1-0000-225-1

About this book

A structured tour of how law actually works in Georgia — where it comes from, who makes it, which court hears what, and how an ordinary person or business interacts with the system. Written for readers with no legal training, with every institution named and every primary source cited so you can verify the position yourself. A civil-law system rebuilt on German lines after independence. The Civil Code of 1997, drafted with German assistance, is unusually faithful to the pandectist structure, and German doctrine is routinely cited in commentary and judgments. Property registration was radically simplified in the 2000s reforms and the public registry is now among the fastest in the region. Georgia has an Association Agreement with the EU including a deep and comprehensive free trade area, so large parts of commercial, competition and consumer regulation are being approximated to EU law. Soviet legal structures were replaced after 1991 by civil, criminal and procedural codes drafted on continental European models, but the prokuratura survives as a powerful supervisory prosecution service with functions that go well beyond charging decisions, and notarial formality remains heavy for property and corporate acts.

What is inside

  • Full Georgia court hierarchy explained tier by tier
  • Named regulators with contact routes and response times
  • Step-by-step procedures for the most common legal tasks
  • Every claim footnoted to an official primary source
  • Glossary of local legal terminology in plain English

Table of contents

5 parts · 18 chapters

Part I — Foundations

  1. 01The legal tradition
  2. 02Constitutional framework
  3. 03Sources of law

Part II — Institutions

  1. 01The court hierarchy
  2. 02Government and regulators
  3. 03Enforcement bodies
  4. 04The legal profession

Part III — Everyday Law

  1. 01Work and employment
  2. 02Housing and property
  3. 03Family and personal status
  4. 04Criminal process

Part IV — Doing Things

  1. 01Starting a business
  2. 02Immigration and residence
  3. 03Tax obligations
  4. 04Making a complaint

Part V — Reference

  1. 01Procedure checklists
  2. 02Glossary
  3. 03Official sources index

Who this is for

  • Residents and newcomers who need to understand their rights
  • Businesses entering or operating in the jurisdiction
  • Lawyers taking a first look at an unfamiliar system
  • Students of comparative law

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