If you have a case where a dog has bitten you or your child during was loose in violation of the local leash law, here is what you need to know.  A Georgia leash law or statute makes the dog owner legally responsible, if the dog attack unwary line was owner's or so loosely run of the dog without any restraints.

To successfully claim, must the victim of a dog bite the condition State in the first part of Georgia Code section 51-2-7 show. This section says "In the evidence of malicious tendency, it shall be sufficient to show that the animal was on heel or on a leash by a regulation of the city, County or consolidated Government be, and which said animal at the time was not on heel or on a leash." For example, can lead relevant local laws stipulate that all dogs on the premises of the dog owner need to be limited or must be on a leash if not on the owner's site.

Next victim must show that the dog bite, caused by the owner "negligent management or... so that the animal is free to go." An example of careless management would be the failure to close a gate, through which the dog could escape.

In other words, a violation of a law with outcome of cord careless management combined or allow the dog to go, without a leash for a dog bite liability be successfully pursued.

What is interesting is that Georgia is the only State that the negligence per se doctrine is so important. It is also the only State a "trimmed down" version of traditional negligence per se doctrine in Foundation's Statute bite dog brings. An example for the liability under this part of the Georgia statute would be going where routinely allow the dog owners their dog after out there, without a leash, in violation of a local animal-law that kept all dogs on a leash, and requires one day, the dog runs up to the block and bites a child playing in a neighbor entrance.    That accident liability would square on the shoulders of dog owners, for which violate animal control law. In other States, the victims would go outside of the Statute and the different elements per se prove the negligence required are, but the Georgia Statute contains the elements as part of the Statute.

If you hurt a dog or other animal, the Atlanta dog bite lawyers of the law firm of Angell today call.

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