{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-9-11-39","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 9-11-39","heading":"Consent to trial by court; jury trial on court order.","body":"(a) The parties or their attorneys of record, by written stipulation filed with the court or by an oral stipulation made in open court and entered in the record, may consent to trial by the court sitting without a jury.\n(b) In all actions not triable of right by a jury, or where jury trial has been expressly waived, the court may nevertheless order a trial with a jury whose verdict will have the same effect as if trial by jury had been a matter of right or had not been waived.","path":["TITLE 9 Civil Practice","CHAPTER 11 Civil Practice Act","Article 6 Trials"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.09.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"a56718834fd1e0195733a32216189eef900ead7a0bce8ac9deb829b15fc37104","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-9-11-38","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-9-11-40"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}