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15-13-81
Section 15-13-81 Conditional judgment - Entry; notice to defendant; execution and return of
notice; alias notices. (a) When an undertaking of bail is forfeited by the failure of the
defendant to appear as required, except when money is deposited instead of bail, a conditional
judgment must be entered by the court in favor of the state against the parties to the undertaking
for the sum thereon expressed, which judgment may be substantially as follows: The State)
vs.) A.B.) Indictment for assault and battery (or other offense, as the case may be). It appearing
to the court that the said A. B. together with C. D. and E. F. agreed to pay the State of
Alabama _____ dollars (the sum specified in the undertaking) unless the said A. B. appeared
at the time and place mentioned and fixed in the bond or undertaking to answer in this case;
and the said A. B. having failed to appear at the time and place mentioned in the bond or
undertaking, it is therefore ordered that the State of Alabama recover...
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6-6-160
Section 6-6-160 Claim of persons not party to writ of execution or attachment, etc., to personal
property levied on; affidavit and bond; delivery of property to claimant. When an execution,
attachment or other like writ, issued from any court or by any officer, is levied on personal
property as to which any person not a party to the writ claims to own the title, legal, or
equitable, or a lien paramount to the right, title, or interest in the property of the defendant
in the writ, such person may try the right to such property before a sale thereof upon making
affidavit by himself, his agent, or attorney, which may be taken by the officer levying the
writ or any officer authorized to administer oaths that he holds such title to, or such lien
upon, the property claimed and executing bond with two good and sufficient sureties, to be
approved by the officer making the levy and payable to the plaintiff in double the value of
the property levied on and claimed, the value thereof to be...
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6-6-166
Section 6-6-166 Return - Where levy made in different county than where judgment entered or
original attachment issued; trial in circuit court; effect of copies; forfeiture of bond.
(a) When the levy is made in a different county from that in which the judgment was entered
or the original attachment issued, if a claim is interposed to the property, it is the duty
of the officer levying the writ to return the original to the court from which it issued,
with a statement thereon showing the interposition of the claim and true copies of the affidavit
and bond, certified by him; and he must return the original affidavit and bond and a true
copy of the writ under which the levy was made, certified by him, to the circuit court of
his own county, where, after 30 days, the trial of the right of property must be had. The
copies thus required to be made, certified as provided in this section, must be received in
lieu of and have, in all respects, the same effect as the originals. (b) If, in the...
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6-6-45
Section 6-6-45 Execution of bond by plaintiff; discharge of levy. Such officer must, when the
attachment is sued out otherwise than upon the ground that the defendant is a nonresident,
further require the plaintiff, his agent, or attorney to execute a bond in double the amount
claimed, with sufficient surety, payable to the defendant, with the condition that the plaintiff
will prosecute the attachment to effect and pay the defendant all such damages as he may sustain
by the wrongful or vexatious suing out of such attachment. When the attachment is sued out
upon the ground that the defendant is a nonresident, such officer shall issue the writ with
or without a bond being given, as the plaintiff may elect. If such attachment is issued without
bond, that fact must be endorsed on the writ. Should the defendant before the return day thereof,
in person or through his agent or attorney, make an unqualified appearance in the case, it
is the duty of the clerk to issue notice to the plaintiff or...
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6-10-36
Section 6-10-36 Contest of exemption claim - Assessment of value of property and damages resulting
from detention on bond; judgment and execution on bond. When bond has been executed by the
plaintiff or defendant for the forthcoming of the property in contest, the value of the property,
and the damages resulting from its detention must be assessed by the court or jury trying
the contest. If the unsuccessful party fails for 20 days after judgment to deliver the property
and pay the damages as required by the condition of the bond, it shall be the duty of the
sheriff to make due return of that fact; and, upon such return being made, the bond shall
have the force and effect of a judgment, and execution may issue thereon against the obligors
on the bond for the value of the property and the damages assessed, or either, and costs.
(Code 1876, §2836; Code 1886, §2532; Code 1896, §2058; Code 1907, §4185; Code 1923, §7907;
Code 1940, T. 7, §650.)...
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6-5-544
Section 6-5-544 Recovery of noneconomic losses; limitation of such losses; mistrial if jury
advised of limitation. (a) In any action for injury whether in contract or in tort against
a health care provider based on a breach of the standard of care, the injured plaintiff and
spouse upon proper proof may be entitled to recover noneconomic losses to compensate for pain,
suffering, inconvenience, physical impairment, disfigurement, loss of consortium, and other
nonpecuniary damage. (b) In no action shall the amount of recovery for noneconomic losses,
including punitive damages, either to the injured plaintiff, the plaintiff's spouse, or other
lawful dependents or any of them together exceed the sum of $400,000. Plaintiff shall not
seek recovery in any amount greater than the amounts described herein for noneconomic losses.
During the trial of any action neither the court nor any party shall advise or infer to the
jury that it may not return an award for noneconomic losses in excess of an...
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6-5-547
Section 6-5-547 One million dollar limit on judgments; mistrial if jury advised of limitation.
In any action commenced pursuant to Section 6-5-391 or Section 6-5-410, against a health care
provider whether in contract or in tort based on a breach of the standard of care the amount
of any judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff shall not exceed the sum of $1,000,000.
Any verdict returned in any such action which exceeds $1,000,000 shall be reduced to $1,000,000
by the trial court or such lesser sum as the trial court deems appropriate in accordance with
prevailing standards for reducing excessive verdicts. During the trial of any action brought
pursuant to Section 6-5-391 or 6-5-410 neither the court nor any party shall advise or infer
to the jury that it may not return a verdict in excess of $1,000,000; in the event the jury
is so advised or such inference is made the court, upon motion of an opposing party, shall
immediately declare a mistrial. The maximum amount payable under this...
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6-7-30
Section 6-7-30 Proceedings when defendant involved in bankruptcy. In any civil action in any
court in this state in which the defendant has been adjudicated a bankrupt, in which a defendant
has filed a petition in bankruptcy or against whom a petition in bankruptcy has been filed,
it shall be the duty of the court in which such civil action is pending to proceed with the
trial of such action, if leave to do so is granted by the bankruptcy court, and to enter judgment
in accordance with the law and the evidence in the case. The court in which such civil action
is pending shall also have authority, and it shall be its duty, to grant such stay of execution
against such defendant as may be appropriate or as may be provided for in the order of the
bankruptcy court, or to embody in the judgment entered in such case such provision as may
be appropriate, or as may be provided in the order of said bankruptcy court, so as to limit
the manner of enforcement of said judgment, or so as to limit the...
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17-16-76
Section 17-16-76 Execution for costs. After the determination of the contest, the Clerk of
the House of Representatives must tax the costs accrued and certify the amount of each separate
item, the name of the person entitled thereto, and the result of such contest and the names
of the sureties on the bond for contest, to the clerk of the circuit court of Montgomery County,
and the clerk must thereupon issue execution against the unsuccessful party, which execution
must be made returnable in 30 days after its issue; and alias and pluries executions may be
issued as often as may be necessary. And if it be certified that the determination of the
contest was against the contestant, the execution must issue against the sureties on the bond
for the contest as well as against the contestant. (Code 1896, §1685; Code 1907, §491; Code
1923, §581; Code 1940, T. 17, §267; §17-15-63; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570,
p. 1331, §83.)...
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12-22-24
Section 12-22-24 Bond on appeal of order removing executor or administrator. (a) No appeal
can be taken from any order of the probate court removing an executor or administrator unless
the applicant gives either a cash bond or a bond with at least two good and sufficient sureties,
payable to the probate judge and in the amount fixed by him, not less than the amount of his
bond as executor or administrator, conditioned to prosecute the appeal to effect and, until
the same is decided, faithfully to discharge his duties as such executor or administrator.
(b) If such appeal is decided against the appellant, any cash bond posted or part thereof
may be ordered forfeited for costs, or, if other than a cash bond was given, execution for
costs may issue against him and the sureties on such bond, their names being certified with
the record to the appellate court. (c) Such bond also stands as security for the faithful
discharge of his duties as such executor or administrator, from the time the...
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