Definition: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Input: of appeal" and remanding for the trial court to make factual findings as to its basis for the dismissal); Rogers, 262 Ga. App. at 857 (1) (vacating a trial court's dismissal of an appeal and remanding the case when "[t]he trial court simply granted the motion without elaboration and failed to make the necessary findings as to whether the delay was unreasonable, inexcusable, and caused by [the appellant]"); Wood v. Notte, 238 Ga. App. 748, 749 (1) (519 SE2d 923) (1999) (reversing the trial court's dismissal order and remanding the case for the trial court to make factual findings when the order "merely granted the motion to dismiss" without making findings as to the reasonableness and excusability of the delay as well as on the issue of causation). 13 See Mitchell, 285 Ga. at 577 (2) (<HOLDING>); Cooper v. State, 235 Ga. App. 66, 67 (2) (508
Holding statements: (A) holding that ajlthough ocga 5648 c sets forth the conditions upon which the trial court may dismiss an appeal for delay it does not by its terms require the court to make a formal recitation of those conditions in its order and affirming a trial courts dismissal order which found that the delay was unreasonable but had no express finding that the delay was inexcusable punctuation omitted (B) holding that the trial court made sufficient findings of fact to support its dismissal of an appeal when the order set forth the circumstances surrounding the appealing partys 16month delay in paying court costs and the appellee had moved to dismiss the appeal based on an inexcusable delay caused by the appellants failure to pay costs (C) holding that a partys explanation that the delay in paying costs was caused by a desire to avoid seeking public assistance in payment did not rebut inference (D) holding that evidence that a partys delay in paying costs was caused by a miscommunication was not sufficient to rebut inference (E) holding that trial court made sufficient findings of fact when it dismissed appeal
Output:
(B)