For the purpose of enabling all persons owning real estate within this state to have the title thereto settled and registered as prescribed by this article, the superior court of the county in which the land is located shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of all petitions and proceedings had thereupon.
(Ga. L. 1917, p. 108, § 2; Code 1933, § 60-201.)
Cross references.- Judges who may preside in the superior court of the county where the land is located, § 44-2-41.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Dispossessory action held not transferable.
- In a dispossessory action filed in state court, there was no evidence of the lack of a landlord-tenant relationship, and no evidence justifying a challenge to the ownership of the land so as to require transfer of the case to the superior court. Bread of Life Baptist Church v. Price, 194 Ga. App. 693, 392 S.E.2d 15 (1990).
Cited in Setlock v. Setlock, 286 Ga. 384, 688 S.E.2d 346 (2010).