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37-1-86
Section 37-1-86 Notice and process. (a) Before proceeding to make such investigation, the commission
shall give the utility and the complainant at least 10 days' notice of the time and place
when and where such matters will be considered and determined, and all parties shall be entitled
to be heard, through themselves or their counsel, and shall have process to enforce the attendance
of witnesses. (b) Whenever the commission shall make any order or determination, or issue
any subpoena, notice or writ, notice thereof may be served on the person affected thereby
by delivering a copy of such order, subpoena, notice or writ, signed by or in the name of
the chairman of the commission, to any such person or an officer or agent of such person,
if a corporation, as in the case of civil process, which service may be executed by any member
of the commission, the secretary or any employee thereof, or by any sheriff of the state,
and a copy of such order, subpoena, notice or writ, with the service...
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15-21-20
Section 15-21-20 Contesting of return; examination into imprisonment or detention; disposition
of detainee on adjournment of examination; forfeiture of bail. (a) The party on whose behalf
a writ of habeas corpus is sued out may deny any of the facts stated in the return and allege
any other facts which may be material in the case. (b) In a summary way, the court or judge
may examine into the cause of the imprisonment or detention, may hear the evidence adduced
and may adjourn the examination from time to time as the circumstances of the case may require
and, in the meantime, remand the party or commit him to the custody of the sheriff of the
county or place him under such other custody as his age or other circumstances may require,
or, if the character of the charge authorizes it, take bail from him in a sufficient amount
for his appearance from day to day until judgment is given. (c) If the party fails to appear,
as required by his undertaking, an entry of forfeiture must be endorsed...
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35-9A-461
Section 35-9A-461 Landlord's action for eviction, rent, monetary damages, or other relief.
(a) A landlord's action for eviction, rent, monetary damages, or other relief relating to
a tenancy subject to this chapter shall be governed by the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure
and the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure except as modified by this chapter. (b) District
courts and circuit courts, according to their respective established jurisdictions, shall
have jurisdiction over eviction actions, and venue shall lie in the county in which the leased
property is located. Eviction actions shall be entitled to precedence in scheduling over all
other civil cases. (c) Service of process shall be made in accordance with the Alabama Rules
of Civil Procedure. However, if a sheriff, constable, or process server is unable to serve
the defendant personally, service may be had by delivering the notice to any person who is
sui juris residing on the premises, or if after reasonable effort no person is...
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6-6-593
Section 6-6-593 Court always open; return of summons; setting of case for trial; trial by court
or jury. (a) The court is at all times open for the trial of a case or the granting of orders
therein. The summons shall be returnable 10 days from the date of issuance, and if five days'
service is not had before such return day, the summons is returnable to the first day after
the expiration of five days after such service. If such return day shall be a day of any regular
or special session of the court, the case stands for trial on the next day after the return
day, unless good cause shall be shown for further delay; but if such return day does not fall
within a regular or special session, the judge must fix a day for the hearing, of which the
clerk must notify the parties or their attorneys; and on such day the case may be tried or,
for good cause shown or by consent of parties and the approval of the court, may be continued
to another day. (b) The case specified in this section must be...
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25-4-134
Section 25-4-134 Procedures for collection of delinquent contribution payments. (a) Generally.
The contributions, interest, and penalties required to be paid under this chapter shall be
a first and prior lien upon all property and rights to property, real or personal,
of any employer subject to this chapter. The lien shall arise at the time the contribution
report, or the payment of the contributions, as the case may be, was due to have been filed
with or made to the Department of Labor. The secretary may file in the office of the judge
of probate of any county in this state a certificate which shall show the name of the department
for which it is filed, the amount and nature of the contributions, interest, and penalties
for which a lien is claimed together with any costs that may have accrued, the name of the
employer against whose property a lien for such contributions, interest, and penalties is
claimed and the date thereof. An error in the certificate of the amount shall not...
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15-8-150
and intentionally to cut out or disable his tongue, or to put out or destroy his eye, etc.
(14) ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO MURDER. A. B., unlawfully and with malice aforethought, did assault
C. D., with the intent to murder him. (15) ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO RAVISH. A. B. did assault
C. D., a woman, with the intent forcibly to ravish her. (16) ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO ROB. A.
B. assaulted C. D. with the felonious intent, by violence to his person or by putting him
in fear of some serious and immediate injury to his person, to rob him. (17) BETTING
AT CARDS, DICE, ETC. A. B. bet at a game played with cards or dice, or some device or substitute
for cards or dice, at a tavern, inn, storehouse for retailing spirituous liquors, or house
or place where spirituous liquors were at the time sold, retailed or given away, or in a public
house, highway or some other public place or at an outhouse where people resorted (or other
place forbidden by law), against, etc. (18) BETTING AT GAMING TABLE, ETC. A....
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18-2-5
Section 18-2-5 Issuance of writ upon filing of application. On the filing of such application,
the judge of probate must issue to the sheriff a writ, setting forth the substantial averments
contained in the application, the name of the applicant and the place where it is proposed
to erect the dam and commanding the sheriff to summon seven disinterested freeholders of the
county to meet at the place where the dam is to be erected, on a day to be specified in the
writ, not less than 15 nor more than 30 days after the filing of the application, and then
and there to inquire touching the matter contained therein. (Code 1852, §2094; Code 1867,
§2486; Code 1876, §3560; Code 1886, §3187; Code 1896, §1732; Code 1907, §3893; Code 1923,
§7512; Code 1940, T. 19, §38.)...
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15-4-4
Section 15-4-4 Service of subpoenas; proceedings against defaulting witnesses; endorsement
as presumptive evidence of default. (a) In an inquest under this chapter, the sheriff or any
constable must serve subpoenas for witnesses or they may be served by the coroner. (b) If
any witness, being subpoenaed, fails to attend, the coroner must endorse on the subpoena his
default, sign his name thereto and return the same to the clerk of the circuit court of the
county within five days thereafter, and such witness must be proceeded against in such court,
in the name of the state, as if he were a defaulter therein, the endorsement of the coroner
being presumptive evidence of the default. (Code 1852, §815; Code 1867, §4366; Code 1876,
§3994; Code 1886, §4804; Code 1896, §4927; Code 1907, §7165; Code 1923, §4560; Code 1940,
T. 15, §79.)...
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35-6-117
Section 35-6-117 Appointment and duties of commissioners generally; oath; return; seizure of
crops. If a division of the crops is decreed, the judge of probate must forthwith issue a
writ, directed to the sheriff, and commanding him to summon three disinterested and intelligent
householders of the county, not related to either of the parties, to make such division, who
shall divide the crops among the parties according to the decree, a copy of which must accompany
the writ, and shall, within 10 days after their appointment, make due return of the division
made by them in writing and under oath, which oath must be taken before the judge of probate,
and must set forth that they made the division fairly and impartially, to the best of their
knowledge and ability; and for the purpose of such division the sheriff, if not in possession,
and no forthcoming bond has been given, must seize the crops to be divided, if in the possession
of any of the parties to the proceedings. (Code 1876,...
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15-10-47
Section 15-10-47 Return of writs by sheriff; duty of clerks to accept returns by mail; failure
of sheriffs to comply with section. (a) All writs of arrest, with the undertaking of bail
when given, must be returned by the sheriff to the clerk of the court from which they were
issued, with the proper return thereon endorsed. (b) If the writ of arrest is executed, the
return must be made within five days after service; but if executed out of the county in which
the indictment was found, the return may be made by depositing the writ in the post office
within five days after service in a sealed envelope, postage prepaid, directed to the clerk
of the court at the courthouse of his county, with the title of the case and the character
of the process endorsed on the envelope. (c) When any writ of arrest is not executed, it must
be returned by the sheriff to the clerk of the court from which it was issued; and when the
return is made by the sheriff of any other county than that in which the...
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