35-4-303
Section 35-4-303 Execution of power by surviving or acting executors; presumption that power not personal. Where lands are devised to one or more executors, or a naked power given by the will to sell, the survivor or survivors, where there are more than one named in the will, and the acting executor or executors, when any one or more of them dies, resigns, refuses to act, or is removed by a court of competent authority, and also an administrator with the will annexed has the same interest in and power over such lands for the purpose of making sale thereof as the executors named in such will might have had. Unless the contrary clearly appears by the terms of the will, it shall be presumed that the power or trust imposed is not a personal trust or confidence. (Code 1852, §1339; Code 1867, §1609; Code 1876, §2218; Code 1886, §1864; Code 1896, §1060; Code 1907, §3437; Code 1923, §6942; Code 1940, T. 47, §90.)...
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6-9-211
Section 6-9-211 Judgment constitutes lien on property of defendant. Every judgment, a certificate of which has been filed as provided in Section 6-9-210, shall be a lien in the county where filed on all property of the defendant which is subject to levy and sale under execution, and such lien shall continue for 10 years after the date of such judgment; provided, that when an action or other proceeding to enforce or foreclose said lien is instituted or begun within said 10 years, but has not been completed, decided, or determined within said 10-year period, and at the time said action or proceeding is instituted or begun, or lien claimed therein, a lis pendens notice thereof is filed in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which said property is situated, the lien provided for in this section shall continue as to the property upon which said lien is claimed in said action or proceeding and may be enforced or foreclosed in that action as if said 10-year period had not...
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10A-4-3.02
Section 10A-4-3.02 Death or disqualification of shareholder. (a) Upon the death of a shareholder of a domestic professional corporation, or if a shareholder of a domestic professional corporation becomes a disqualified person, or if shares of a domestic professional corporation are transferred by operation of law or court decree to a disqualified person, the shares of the deceased shareholder or of the disqualified person may be transferred to a qualified person and, if not so transferred, shall be purchased or redeemed by the domestic professional corporation to the extent of funds which may be legally made available for the purchase. (b) If the price for the shares is not fixed by the governing documents of the domestic professional corporation or by private agreement, the domestic professional corporation, within six months after the death or 30 days after the disqualification or transfer, as the case may be, shall make a written offer to pay for the shares at a specified price...
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17-3-55
Section 17-3-55 Refusal of registration - Appeal. Any person to whom registration is denied shall have the right of appeal, without giving security for costs, within 30 days after such denial, by filing a petition in the probate court in the county in which he or she seeks to register, alleging that he or she is a citizen of the United States over the age of 18 years having the qualifications as to residence prescribed by law and entitled to register to vote under the provisions of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended. Upon the filing of the petition, the clerk of the probate court shall give notice thereof to the district attorney authorized to represent the state in the county, who shall appear and defend against the petition on behalf of the state. The registrars shall not be made parties and shall not be liable for costs. An appeal will lie to the circuit court in favor of the petitioner if taken within 30 days from the date of the judgment pursuant to Section 12-22-20....
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3-5-12
Section 3-5-12 Proceedings for recovery of livestock or animal by owner; determination of validity of seizure, amount of damages, etc., where owner unknown, etc.; fees and costs of district court judge and officer making seizure; appeals from judgment of district court. (a) The owner of any livestock or animal which has been seized shall have the right to possession of the same by paying such judgment and the costs thereof or, if no judgment has been entered, by paying such damages as may be agreed upon together with fees and costs and expenses due on account of such seizure to the person or officer so seizing such livestock or animal or to the person who may at the time of such payment have such livestock or animal in his possession and by paying to the court the costs of the court incurred to the time of such payment. Should the parties be unable to agree upon the amount of damages, fees, costs and expenses due, either party shall have the right to go before any district court judge...
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8-13-4
Section 8-13-4 License - Bond required of applicant. (a) Every applicant for a going out of business sale or distress merchandise sale license shall execute and file with the probate judge to whom the application is made a good and sufficient bond in the sum of $2,500 or five percent of the wholesale value of the inventory as set forth in the application, whichever is greater, with two or more sureties thereon, approved by said probate judge or with the surety thereon a surety company authorized to do business in the State of Alabama, which bond in any event shall be approved by said probate judge, payable to the State of Alabama, and shall be conditioned upon faithful observance of all the conditions of this chapter and shall also indemnify any purchaser at such sale who suffers any loss by reason of misrepresentation in said sale. (b) Such bond shall continue in effect for one year after the termination of the sale for which it is made. (c) The licensee shall notify the probate judge...
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35-11-227
Section 35-11-227 Actions by employees, etc.; defense by contractor. (a) If the action is by an employee of the contractor, or by any person who has furnished to him material for the building or improvement, the contractor shall be a necessary party defendant thereto; and in such action on motion of the plaintiff, the owner or proprietor may be cited to answer under oath how much was owing by him to the contractor on his contract with such contractor, at the time of the service on him of the notice required by Section 35-11-218; and such answer may be controverted, and proceedings had and judgment entered as in garnishment cases. (b) When the lien is sought to be enforced by any person other than the contractor, it shall be the duty of the contractor to defend the action at his own expense; and after notice of an intention to file a statement of the lien, and pending the action, the owner or proprietor may withhold from the contractor money sufficient to cover the amount claimed, and...
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6-5-4
Section 6-5-4 Recovery of public moneys, funds or property. (a) The Governor may cause actions to be commenced for the recovery of any public moneys, funds, or property of the state or of any county which have been lost by the neglect or default of any public officer, which have been wrongfully expended or disbursed by such officer, which have been wrongfully used by such officer, or which have been wrongfully received from him. (b) In the event any public officer or agent of the state or any depositary or custodian of public funds or moneys has wrongfully used such funds or moneys, actions for the recovery thereof may be commenced before any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter; and it shall not be ground of objection to such an action that either, any, or all of the parties defendant do not reside within the county or within the district in which such action is commenced. (c) Such action may be commenced in any court of competent jurisdiction; and such officer or agent,...
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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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6-6-259
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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