17-16-56
Section 17-16-56 Contest of election of judge of probate court and other county and municipal
officers - Generally. If the contest is of an election to the office of judge of the probate
court, sheriff, tax assessor, tax collector, county treasurer, clerk of the circuit court,
or any other office filled by the vote of a single county or any subdivision thereof, or any
office of a city or town not in this article otherwise provided for, the party contesting
must file in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the election
was held, a statement in writing, verified by affidavit, of the grounds of the contest as
provided in this article and must give good and sufficient security for the costs of the contest,
to be approved by the clerk. On the filing of the statement and the giving of the security,
the clerk must enter the contest on the trial docket as a civil action pending in the court
for trial, and, after having made such entry, the clerk must issue a...
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31-2-111
Section 31-2-111 Ordering out of troops - Request to Governor by local officials. Whenever
any circuit court judge, municipal court judge, probate court judge, sheriff, or mayor of
any incorporated city, town, or village, shall have reasonable cause to apprehend the outbreak
of any riot, rout, tumult, mob, or combination to oppose the enforcement of the laws by force
or violence, within the jurisdiction in which such officer is by law a conservator of the
peace, which cannot be speedily suppressed or effectually prevented by the ordinary posse
comitatus and peace officers, it shall forthwith become the duty of such judge, sheriff, or
mayor, to report the facts and circumstances in writing or verbally to the Governor or his
authorized representative, and request him to order out such portion of the National Guard
of the state as may be necessary to enforce the laws and preserve the peace. It shall thereafter
be the duty of the Governor, if he deems such apprehension well-founded, to...
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11-42-60
Section 11-42-60 Passage, certification, filing with probate judge, etc., of resolution declaring
annexed territory subject to taxation and map of same. Whenever and as often as the facts
exist which authorize a city to collect taxes from and on any portion of the territory brought
within the corporate limits under the provisions of this article, the council or governing
body of the city shall pass a resolution declaring the territory (described in the resolution)
subject to taxation, and thereupon the mayor or governing head of the city shall make and
file with the judge of probate of the county in which the city is situated a certified copy
of such resolution, together with a map of such territory attached thereto showing respectively
the land owned by the respective owners, if the owners are known, or "unknown owners"
where owners are not known. (Code 1907, §1093; Code 1923, §1787; Code 1940, T. 37, §156.)...

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11-42-2
Section 11-42-2 Annexation election and proceedings generally; proceedings where parties consent
to annexation. Whenever the council shall pass a resolution to the effect that the public
health or public good requires that certain territory (described in the resolution) shall
be brought within the limits of the city or town: (1) It shall be the duty of the mayor to
certify a copy of such resolution to the judge of probate of the county in which the land
proposed to be annexed is situated, and said certified resolution shall have attached thereto
a plat or map of said territory, which certified resolution and plat or map shall be filed
by the judge of probate. (2) Except as provided in subdivision (9) of this section, the judge
of probate shall, not less than 10 nor more than 15 days from the date of the filing of such
resolution, make and enter an order upon the minutes of said court, directing and ordering
an election to be held by the qualified electors residing within the territory...
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45-49-85.42
Section 45-49-85.42 Temporary judges of probate. (a)(1) If the regularly elected Judge of Probate
of Mobile County is incompetent from any legal cause, incapacitated, absent or will be absent
from sickness, or otherwise disqualified from acting as judge, the judge of probate or the
chief clerk shall certify the fact of incompetency, incapacity, absence, sickness, or disqualification
to the presiding judge of the circuit court of the county and the presiding judge of the circuit
court, upon that certificate, shall appoint a person learned in the law, practicing and residing
in the county, to act as temporary judge of probate. At any time when the regularly elected
judge of probate of the county files a certificate in the office of the circuit clerk of the
county that he or she is no longer incompetent, from any legal cause, incapacitated, absent,
absent from sickness, or otherwise disqualified from acting as judge, then the regularly elected
judge of probate of the county shall...
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31-2-112
Section 31-2-112 Ordering out of troops - Issuance of order by Governor; authority of local
civil authorities to order out troops. (a) Whenever there is an insurrection or outbreak of
a formidable character which has overawed, or threatens to overawe, the ordinary civil authorities,
or in cases of disaster, and the authorities in such county, city, or town, have attempted
and failed to quell the same by use of a posse comitatus, or it is apparent that such attempt
would be useless, the Governor on a certificate of such facts from any four conservators of
the peace in such county, city, or town, or from any circuit court judge, probate court judge,
sheriff, or justice of the Supreme Court, shall immediately order out such portion of the
National Guard or Militia as he may deem necessary to enforce the laws, and preserve the peace,
and the Governor may, when the urgency is great, order out such troops without any certificate
from either of the officers mentioned in this section, but in...
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6-6-165
Section 6-6-165 Return - Where execution issued from probate court; trial in circuit court;
return of execution on forfeited bond. (a) If the levy was made under execution issued from
the probate court, the sheriff must return the original execution to the court from which
it issued with an endorsement thereon showing the interposition of the claim, and he must
return a copy of the execution and of the returns thereon, the affidavit and the bond to the
circuit court of his county, where, after 30 days, the trial of the right of property must
be had according to the provisions of this article. (b) If, in the case provided for in subsection
(a) of this section, the bond is forfeited, the execution on the forfeited bond must be made
returnable to the court from which the original process issued, of which and of the time of
its receipt by the sheriff the clerk must give the judge of probate written notice, which
shall be presumptive evidence of the fact against the sheriff. (Code 1852,...
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11-42-51
Section 11-42-51 Canvassing of returns; entry, recordation, etc., of orders, maps, etc., as
to annexation of territory. The judge of probate must canvass the returns as made by the inspectors
and if it appears that a majority of the votes cast at the election were "for annexation"
the judge shall make and enter an order on the records of the probate court adjudging and
decreeing the corporate limits of the city to be extended so as to embrace the territory described
in the resolution and designated on the plat or map attached to the resolution, and must cause
the certified resolution and all orders or decrees or judgments to be recorded in the records
in his office and must also cause the map or plat to be recorded in the map records in his
office, and from the time of the entry of such order such territory shall be a part of and
within the corporate limits of the city with the limitations, rights, powers, and privileges
set forth in this article. If it appears that a majority of the...
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11-48-43
Section 11-48-43 Appeals from judgment of circuit court - By property owner - Authorized; bonds.
An appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court of Alabama by any person interested in said property
from the judgment entered by the circuit court within 42 days from the date of entry of such
judgment, upon giving bond for costs of appeal or, if a stay of execution of the judgment
is desired, upon giving further bond in such sum as the judge of the circuit court may prescribe,
payable to the city or town with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the clerk of said
court, conditioned to pay such judgment or perform such judgment as the supreme court may
render in the action, and all such costs and damages as the city or town may have sustained
if the judgment is affirmed. (Code 1907, §1396; Code 1923, §2211; Acts 1927, No. 639, p.
753; Code 1940, T. 37, §552.)...
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12-11A-2
Section 12-11A-2 Qualifications; requirements. (a) Persons who may act as private judges shall:
(1) Have been, but are not actively serving as, a judge of a district, circuit, or probate
court and have served in the capacity of judge for at least six consecutive years. (2) Be
admitted to the practice of law in Alabama. (3) Be an active member in good standing of the
Alabama State Bar Association. (4) Be a resident of Alabama. (b) A person may act as a judge
of a case under this chapter only if all of the following occur: (1) All parties to the action
file a written petition with the circuit clerk of the court in which the action is pending
requesting a private judge and naming the person whom the parties wish to have as private
judge. The petition shall be accompanied by a form signed by the private judge selected consenting
to the appointment. (2) The case is one over which the court in which the former judge served
would have had subject matter and monetary jurisdiction. (3) The case...
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