Moore v. Moore

Franicum, Justice.

1. “The effect of the Act adopting the present Code was to enact into one statute all the provisions embraced in the Code. Central R. Co. v. State, 104 Ga. 831 [31 SE 531, 42 LRA 518]. And in construing any section of the Code, we must treat it as a single statute forming one homogeneous and consistent body of laws, and each Code section is to be considered in explaining and elucidating every other part of the common system to which it belongs.” Barron v. Terrell, 124 Ga. 1077, 1078 (53 SE 181). The foregoing rule, while applied in that case to the Code of 1895, is a broad…