Orders and decrees.

(a) In Etowah County all orders and decrees shall be made and entered by circuit judges sitting in and for the county on a sheet or sheets now commonly called trial sheets. There shall be a trial sheet or sheets for each case docketed in such courts properly identified by the style of the case and a case number.

(b) After all orders and decrees have been made and entered, in any case, by the circuit judge or judges sitting in and for such county, the clerk of the circuit court of such county shall file such sheets in numerical order in well bound books labelled Minute Books and such judgments or decrees shall have the same force and effect as minutes of the circuit court of the county prior to the passage and approval of this section.

(Act 84-650, p. 1302, §§1, 2.)