15-21-22
Section 15-21-22 Admission to bail if charged with bailable offense; procedure when sufficient bail not offered; transmission of bail to clerk of court; forfeiture of bail. (a) Upon a hearing on a writ of habeas corpus, if it appears that the detained party is charged with a public offense which is bailable, he must be admitted to bail on offering sufficient bail. (b) If sufficient bail is not offered, the amount of bail required must be endorsed on the warrant, and the court to which he is required to appear, and the detained party may be afterwards discharged by the sheriff of the county on giving sufficient bail in the amount so required. (c) All undertakings of bail taken by any judge or sheriff under the provisions of this section must be transmitted by him to the clerk of the court before which the party is bound to appear by the first day of the next succeeding session and may be forfeited, and the same proceedings thereon had, as against other bail in criminal cases. (Code...
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19-3-38
Section 19-3-38 Admissibility of evidence at hearings; exceptions; appeals. Upon a hearing before the register or clerk under any of the provisions of this article, any competent legal evidence, written or oral, may be received. All such evidence must be noted and oral testimony reduced to writing by the register or clerk. Within 10 days thereafter, either party may file exceptions to the action or conclusion of the register or clerk, and may have the same reviewed by the circuit judge upon 10 days' notice to the other party, such review to be without any presumption in favor of the correctness of the action or conclusion of the register or clerk. From the decision of the circuit judge thereon an appeal lies to the court of civil appeals or the supreme court within 42 days. (Code 1896, §4170; Code 1907, §6072; Code 1923, §10409; Code 1940, T. 58, §26.)...
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6-6-40
Section 6-6-40 Form. The form of attachment must be in substance as follows, but no objection shall be taken for any defect in form if the essential matters are set forth: The State of Alabama, ___ county To any sheriff of the State of Alabama: Whereas A. B. (or C. D., as the agent or attorney of A. B., as the case may be) hath complained on oath to me, E. F., judge of the circuit court of said state (or district court judge, or judge of the probate court or clerk of the circuit court of said county or as the case may be), that G. H. is (or will be, as the case may be) justly indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of _____ dollars, and the plaintiff having made affidavit and given bond as required by law in such cases, you are hereby commanded to attach so much of the estate of G. H. as will be of value to satisfy the said debt and costs, according to the complaint, and such estate, unless replevied, so to secure that the same may be liable to further proceedings thereon, to be had...
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11-51-14
Section 11-51-14 Entry of judgment by circuit court; sale of property for payment of taxes, etc., generally. If no pleadings setting up a defense shall be filed by the owner of the property within 30 days after publication has been perfected or within 30 days after service of the notice by the sheriff, then without further proof a final judgment shall be entered by the circuit judge adjudging such property liable for such taxes and directing the register or clerk to sell such property for the payment of the taxes, charges, penalties, interest, and costs that are charged thereon unless the amount due and the costs shall have been paid to the register or clerk before the sale. Such sale shall be made as in other civil actions and need not be confirmed by the court. The judge may consolidate actions against property assessed to the same owner and may designate the property which shall be sold to pay to the taxes, charges, interest, penalties and costs charged to all. If any defense is...
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12-20-29
Section 12-20-29 Substitution of lost, etc., papers or records in civil cases - How made - After determination of action or proceeding. If, after the determination of any civil action or proceeding, the original papers, or any part thereof pertaining thereto, which are not of record are lost, mislaid, destroyed or mutilated, if the record of such papers with such papers should be lost, mislaid, destroyed or mutilated or if the record of any judgment or decree of any judicial proceeding or quasi-judicial proceeding, or any part thereof, should be lost, mislaid, destroyed or mutilated, any party in interest may, on application in writing, stating the facts, accompanied with the substitute proposed of such lost, mislaid, destroyed or mutilated paper or record, verified by affidavit, obtain an order of substitution. If the adverse party is of full age, of sound mind and a resident of the state, notice of the application and a copy thereof, accompanied with a copy of the proposed...
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19-3-28
Section 19-3-28 Notice to creditors. Upon the making of such order the register or clerk must give notice thereof by mail, postage prepaid, to each creditor whose name and address he may, by diligent inquiry and investigation, ascertain from the trustee, or assignor, or the record of the deed of assignment in the office of the judge of probate, or any other available source of information, and must also give notice by publication once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper published in the county, or if there be no such paper, by posting the notice at the courthouse door for the same length of time. Such notice may be substantially in the following form: "To the creditors of A.B., of _____: "The said A.B., having made an assignment for the benefit of creditors, and C.D. having filed his petition for the administration of such trust by the circuit court, and the circuit judge having made an order designating the _____ day of _____, as a day by or on which all claims of...
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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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12-19-54
Section 12-19-54 Proceedings for retaxation of excessive costs in probate courts. (a) If the taxation of costs by a probate court is excessive by charging the costs of witnesses who were not examined, by charging costs to an improper party or by taxing costs contrary to law, the party aggrieved may move the court for a retaxation, setting forth the particulars in which the clerk has erred. This section shall apply to costs taxed in probate courts in all cases and proceedings where such courts have jurisdiction, and any aggrieved party to any case or proceeding may move the circuit court in the county where such case or proceeding is pending for a retaxation of such costs, setting forth the particulars wherein such probate court costs were improperly taxed. Such motion may be heard on five days' notice to the officers or persons claiming said fees or costs, and the same shall be passed on by the judge as other motions are heard and passed upon. From a judgment or order refusing or...
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15-7-21
Section 15-7-21 Discharge of defendant - By judge or magistrate; certification and delivery of warrant with undertaking. (a) When the offense described in the warrant is a misdemeanor and it is not executed by the sheriff or his deputy, at the defendant's request, he may be brought before a judge, or a magistrate when authorized by law to grant bail, of the county in which the warrant was executed; and such judge or magistrate may, without examination, discharge such defendant, upon sufficient bail for his appearance before the court having cognizance of the offense. (b) The judge or magistrate admitting a defendant to bail under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section must certify the same upon the warrant and deliver such warrant, with the undertaking, to the officer who executed the warrant, who must cause the same to be delivered without unnecessary delay to the clerk of the court in which the defendant is bound by his undertaking to appear. (Code 1852, §§441, 443; Code...
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6-9-1
Section 6-9-1 Executions on judgments; forms thereof. The party in whose favor a judgment is entered, whether for debt, damages, or costs, for the satisfaction thereof, may, within 10 years thereafter, have a writ of execution against the lands and goods of the party against whom such judgment is entered. When the judgment is for specific property or the alternate value, or for the possession of lands, appropriate writs of execution may issue for the satisfaction thereof. Such writs of execution must substantially conform to the following forms: (Form of Writ of Execution) The State of Alabama, ___ County. To any Sheriff of the State of Alabama: You are hereby commanded that of the goods and chattels, lands, and tenements of _____, you cause to be made the sum of _____ dollars, which _____ recovered of him on the _____ day of _____, 2__, by the judgment of the circuit (or district) court, held for the County of _____, besides _____ dollars, costs of the action; and have the same to...
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