12-13-7
Section 12-13-7 Garnishments - Issuance, enforcement, etc., generally. The probate court may issue process of garnishment upon decrees for money, in favor of plaintiffs in such decrees, returnable within 30 days, upon compliance with the laws respecting garnishments in the circuit courts on judgments and may render judgments or decrees on the answers of such garnishees, enforce the collection thereof by execution, as may be necessary, and try all collateral issues that may grow out of the answers of such garnishees, both as to a contest of an answer or a claim of an alleged transferee. (Code 1867, §802; Code 1876, §708; Code 1886, §797; Code 1896, §3376; Code 1907, §5434; Code 1923, §9596; Code1940, T. 13, §305.)...
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12-13-9
Section 12-13-9 Powers of probate court as to punishment for contempt. (a) The probate court may issue show cause orders and attachment for contempts offered to the court or its process by any executor, administrator, guardian, or other person and may punish the person by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars ($20) and imprisonment not exceeding 24 hours, or both. (b) In all cases or other proceedings in the probate court of a county where the judge of probate is a licensed attorney in this state, the judge of probate shall have the same power to punish for civil contempt as granted to a judge of the circuit court pursuant to Section 12-11-30 or other law or as provided by the common law of this state. (Code 1852, §671; Code 1867, §791; Code 1876, §694; Code 1886, §788; Code 1896, §3364; Code 1907, §5420; Code 1923, §9580; Code 1940, T. 13, §279; Act 2017-388, §1.)...
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12-19-10
Section 12-19-10 Local purchasing procedures. In order to facilitate the prompt purchase and delivery of equipment, clerical office supplies, court forms, stationery and other printed court supplies, hereinafter referred to as "clerical office supplies," used by and in the offices of circuit judges, district judges, circuit clerks, district clerks, registers, court administrators, official court reporters, magistrates and jury commissions, the presiding circuit judge of each judicial circuit is hereby authorized to administer local purchasing procedures within such judicial circuit and each county thereof as provided in this section. (1) Not more than 90 days prior to the beginning of each fiscal year, each circuit judge, district judge, circuit clerk, district clerk, register, court administrator, official court reporter, magistrate and each jury commission shall submit to the Administrative Director of Courts a written estimate of the costs of clerical office supplies anticipated to...
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40-1-23
Section 40-1-23 Liability of officers for conversion. Any probate judge, clerk of a court of record, register, sheriff, coroner, tax collector, county treasurer, trustee of public schools, notary public, constable, or other public officer who knowingly converts to his own use or permits another to use any of the revenue of the state or of any county or municipality thereof or any money paid into his office or received by him in his official capacity is liable to indictment and, on conviction, must be punished as if he had stolen it. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §902.)...
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43-2-173
Section 43-2-173 Resignation and removal - Generally. (a) The general administrator may be removed for the same causes as other administrators. Such removal may be made by the judge of probate without notice, but the grounds thereof must be entered on the minutes of the court. (b) The resignation of the office of general administrator shall not operate to discharge the incumbent from the administration of any estate previously committed to his charge as such general administrator; but he may proceed, notwithstanding such resignation, to administer and finally settle the same, as if he had not resigned such office; and the sureties on his bond as general administrator shall be liable for every act of maladministration on such estate committed after his resignation, to the same extent as if he had not resigned; but he may be removed from the administration of such estate for any of the causes prescribed by law, or he may resign his administration thereon by leave of the probate court of...
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43-2-647
Section 43-2-647 Refunding bonds - Bond stands as security; action on bond. (a) Such refunding bond stands as security for the executor or administrator, should the assets in his hands, after any payment of money or delivery of property under the order of the court, prove insufficient to pay the debts, claims and charges against the estate, and the executor or administrator pays the same; and also as security for the creditors of the estate; and any creditor may bring a civil action thereon. (b) The extent of the recoveries on such bond is the amount or value of the property received by the legatee or distributee and interest on such amount or value from the date of its receipt; and the value of property received may be proved by the entry of record, made according to the provisions of this division or other evidence; and civil actions may be brought on such bond from time to time in the name of any person aggrieved until the whole amount of the liability, as determined by this...
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43-2-747
Section 43-2-747 Objections. At any time within six months after the declaration of insolvency, the administrator or any creditor, heir, legatee, devisee or distributee may object to the allowance of any claim filed against the estate by filing objections thereto in writing; and, thereupon, the court must cause an issue to be made up between the claimant and objector, in which issue the correctness of such claim must be tried as in a civil action, if required; and, if it is found for the claimant to the whole amount thereof, the same must be allowed and such claimant recover the costs of the trial of such issue; but, if against the claimant, the claim must be rejected, and the party contesting recovers the cost of the trial of such issue. (Code 1852, §1854; Code 1867, §2203; Code 1876, §2575; Code 1886, §2245; Code 1896, §313; Code 1907, §2781; Code 1923, §6020; Acts 1931, No. 732, p. 843; Code 1940, T. 61, §407.)...
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6-6-334
Section 6-6-334 Failure of witnesses to attend or refusal to testify. (a) Any witness, duly subpoenaed and failing to attend or refusing to testify may be fined by the district court judge not exceeding $100, for the use of the county, for which he may issue execution directed to the constable. (b) The judgment specified in subsection (a) of this section must not be made absolute until 10 days after service of a written notice on such witness, informing him of the entry of such judgment. (Code 1852, §§2869, 2870; Code 1867, §§3318, 3319; Code 1876, §§3715, 3716; Code 1886, §§3394, 3395; Code 1896, §§2141, 2142; Code 1907, §§4277, 4278; Code 1923, §§8018, 8019; Code 1940, T. 7, §§981, 982.)...
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11-51-12
Section 11-51-12 Filing of list in circuit court; entry of civil actions for assessments on trial docket; issuance, execution, and return of summons notifying owners of institution of proceedings against property generally. Such lists shall be filed with the register or clerk of the circuit court. The register or clerk shall cause to be entered on the trial docket in such court in a well-bound book kept for that purpose a civil action for each assessment of property of the city or town against such property so assessed. Said docket shall show the amount of the taxes sought to be collected, a description of the property and the name of the owner, if known. Upon the filing of the certificate, the register or clerk is directed to issue a summons, as in other civil actions, containing a description of the property and notifying each owner of the filing of the proceedings against his property. Only one summons, however, shall be necessary if two or more pieces of property are assessed to...
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12-17-114
Section 12-17-114 Duties generally. (a) It is the duty of the register, within his respective county: (1) To administer oaths in all cases; to issue all processes from the circuit court as to equitable cases; to make orders of publication for defendants; to grant default judgments for want of answers; to issue attachments and processes of sequestration; to make all interlocutory decrees and orders, not affecting the decision of the controversy between the parties, subject at all times to the control, direction and supervision of the circuit court; and to exercise such other duties as are, or may be, conferred by law, including administrative rules promulgated by order of the Supreme Court of Alabama. (2) To keep a consolidated docket sheet of all cases filed, in which must be entered the names of plaintiffs and defendants, the names of the attorneys of the several parties, a minute of the time when process issued and was returned, the return thereon and note of all the orders and...
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