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17-16-53
Section 17-16-53 Contest of senator or representative in Legislature - Costs taxed. The package
mailed by the clerk must be opened by the presiding officer and presented to the house over
which he or she presides for such action as such house may deem proper. On the determination
of the contest, the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House, as the case may be,
must certify the result thereof to the clerk of the court in which the statement of contest
was filed. The certificate must be filed in the office of the clerk and shall have the force
and effect of a judgment against the unsuccessful party for the costs of the contest. And
the clerk having taxed the costs, allowing the fees and costs allowed for similar services
in civil cases at law, must issue execution for the amount thereof in the name of the successful
party. If the party contesting the election is the unsuccessful party, the unsuccessful party
sureties must pay the costs of the contest. (Code 1896, §1692; Code...
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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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6-6-463
Section 6-6-463 Disposition of claims of other persons suggested by garnishee. (a) When the
garnishee, by his answer as originally filed or by any supplemental answer thereafter, alleges,
at any time before final judgment against him, that he has been notified that another person
claims title to, or an interest in, the debt, demand, money, or effects which, by his answer,
he has admitted to be due or owing or to be in his possession, the clerk must issue notice
to the suggested claimant to appear within 30 days after service of the notice and propound
his claim and contest with the plaintiff the right to such debt, demand, money or effects.
(b) If he appears, he must be required to propound his claim in writing and make oath thereto,
upon which the plaintiff must take issue in law or in fact, and the issue in fact must be
tried by a jury, if required by either party. If the issue is found for the plaintiff, judgment
must be entered against the garnishee on his answer or, if for the...
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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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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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12-19-134
Section 12-19-134 Taxation and collection of amount proved; limitation on number of witnesses
to prove any one matter. (a) Upon the final disposition of any civil case, the amount proved
by the witnesses, as provided in this article, must be taxed in the bill of costs against
the rightful party, setting forth the name of each witness and the amount allowed him, which
must be collected by the sheriff for the use of such witnesses and be paid to the clerk issuing
the execution, unless the certificate of such clerk, with the receipt of the witnesses thereon,
is produced to the sheriff. (b) Not more than two witnesses shall be taxed in any bill of
costs who were called to prove any one matter of fact or, having been subpoenaed, were not
examined unless the court, upon a motion to retax the costs, should, in its discretion, consider
that the circumstances of the case warranted the examining or summoning of more than two witnesses
for the proof of a particular fact or unless such witnesses...
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36-11-21
Section 36-11-21 Fees and compensation of witnesses generally; statement to be filed by examiner
as to fees and compensation to which witnesses entitled; payment of fees and compensation
of state witnesses before Supreme Court when proceedings instituted on information of Attorney
General. Witnesses in impeachment cases are entitled to the same fees and compensation as
witnesses in civil cases in the circuit court, to be certified in the same manner and taxed
and collected as costs. The examiner must file with his return a statement showing the names
of witnesses examined by each party and the fees and compensation to which they are entitled.
When the proceeding is upon the information of the Attorney General, the fees of witnesses
on the part of the state attending before the Supreme Court must be paid out of the treasury
on warrant of the Comptroller, drawn upon the certificate of the clerk showing the fees and
compensation to which the witness is entitled and the approval of the...
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6-6-259
Section 6-6-259 Actions by mortgagees or vendor in conditional sale contract, etc., against
mortgagors or vendees, etc. (a) If the action is by a mortgagee or his assignee against a
mortgagor, or one holding under him, or by a vendor who has made a conditional sale reserving
the title until the entire purchase money shall be paid, or his assignee, against his vendee
or one holding under him, the defendant may, upon suggestion, require that the jury ascertain
the amount of the mortgage debt or the unpaid balance of the purchase price of the article
sold; and if the debt due is ascertained to be less than the value of the property sued for
as assessed by the jury, judgment must be entered for the property sued for or if that is
not to be had, then for the amount of the debt as ascertained by the jury. The court must
also make an order that, if the debt so ascertained, interest and costs, shall be paid within
30 days, no execution or other process shall issue on the judgment; and on...
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6-6-591
Section 6-6-591 Right of action and venue - Usurpation, etc., of office or franchise, etc.
(a) An action may be commenced in the name of the state against the party offending in the
following cases: (1) When any person usurps, intrudes into or unlawfully holds or exercises
any public office, civil or military, any franchise, any profession requiring a license, certificate,
or other legal authorization within this state or any office in a corporation created by the
authority of this state; (2) When any public officer, civil or military, has done or suffered
any act by which, under the law, he forfeits his office; or (3) When any association, or number
of persons, acts within this state as a corporation without being duly incorporated. (b) The
judge of the circuit court may direct the action to be commenced when he believes that any
of the acts specified in subsection (a) of this section can be proved and it is necessary
for the public good, or it may be commenced without the direction...
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10A-2-13.30
Section 10A-2-13.30 Court action. REPEALED IN THE 2019 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2019-94 EFFECTIVE
JANUARY 1, 2020. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a) If a demand for payment under
Section 10A-2-13.28 remains unsettled, the corporation shall commence a proceeding within
60 days after receiving the payment demand and petition the court to determine the fair value
of the shares and accrued interest. If the corporation does not commence the proceeding within
the 60 day period, it shall pay each dissenter whose demand remains unsettled the amount demanded.
(b) The corporation shall commence the proceeding in the circuit court of the county where
the corporation's principal office, or, if none in this state, its registered office, is located.
If the corporation is a foreign corporation without a registered office in this state, it
shall commence the proceeding in the county in this state where the registered office of the
domestic corporation merged with or whose shares were...
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