7-7-601
Section 7-7-601 Lost, stolen, or destroyed documents of title. (a) If a document of title is lost, stolen, or destroyed, a court may order delivery of the goods or issuance of a substitute document and the bailee may without liability to any person comply with the order. If the document was negotiable, a court may not order delivery of the goods or issuance of a substitute document without the claimant's posting security unless it finds that any person that may suffer loss as a result of nonsurrender of possession or control of the document is adequately protected against the loss. If the document was nonnegotiable, the court may require security. The court may also order payment of the bailee's reasonable costs and attorney's fees in any action under this subsection. (b) A bailee that, without a court order, delivers goods to a person claiming under a missing negotiable document of title is liable to any person injured thereby. If the delivery is not in good faith, the bailee is...
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6-5-351
Section 6-5-351 Action by father or mother for seduction of daughter. The father or, in case of his death or desertion of his family, or of his imprisonment for a term of two years or more under a conviction for crime, or of his confinement in an insane hospital, or of his having been declared of unsound mind, the mother, may commence an action for the seduction of a daughter under the age of 19 years though she be not living with or in the service of the plaintiff at the time of the seduction or afterwards and there is no loss of service; provided, that an action by the daughter is a bar to an action by the father or mother. (Code 1852, §2134; Code 1867, §2530; Code 1876, §2897; Code 1886, §2586; Code 1896, §24; Code 1907, §2483; Code 1923, §5693; Acts 1935, No. 356, p. 780; Code 1940, T. 7, §117.)...
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6-6-594
Section 6-6-594 Joinder - Alleged corporation as party defendant. When the action is against persons acting as a corporation without being duly incorporated, the alleged corporation may be joined as a party defendant, and such joinder does not admit its corporate existence or otherwise prejudice the case of the plaintiff. A judgment and execution may go against it by its alleged corporate name, as in other cases. (Code 1896, §3423; Code 1907, §5456; Code 1923, §9935; Code 1940, T. 7, §1139.)...
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6-9-161
Section 6-9-161 Tendering value of restored property by bond obligors where same dead or destroyed. When property is restored to the defendant on the execution of a forthcoming bond and the same dies or is destroyed before the day for the delivery thereof without fault on his part, the obligors in the bond may tender the value thereof to the plaintiff, his agent or attorney, and if such tender is refused, the obligors in such bond may, on petition to the judge of the circuit court, supersede the same. (Code 1852, §2470; Code 1867, §2890; Code 1876, §3217; Code 1886, §2921; Code 1896, §1919; Code 1907, §4138; Code 1923, §7853; Code 1940, T. 7, §565.)...
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7-2A-531
Section 7-2A-531 Standing to sue third parties for injury to goods. (1) If a third party so deals with goods that have been identified to a lease contract as to cause actionable injury to a party to the lease contract (a) the lessor has a right of action against the third party, and (b) the lessee also has a right of action against the third party if the lessee: (i) has a security interest in the goods; (ii) has an insurable interest in the goods; or (iii) bears the risk of loss under the lease contract or has since the injury assumed that risk as against the lessor and the goods have been converted or destroyed. (2) If at the time of the injury the party plaintiff did not bear the risk of loss as against the other party to the lease contract and there is no arrangement between them for disposition of the recovery, his or her suit or settlement, subject to his or her own interest, is as a fiduciary for the other party to the lease contract. (3) Either party with the consent of the...
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32-7-27
Section 32-7-27 Money or securities as proof. (a) Proof of financial responsibility may be evidenced by the certificate of the State Treasurer that the person named in the certificate has deposited with him or her $50,000 in cash, or securities that may legally be purchased by savings banks or for trust funds of a market value of $50,000. The State Treasurer shall not accept the deposit and issue a certificate pursuant to this section and the director shall not accept the certificate unless accompanied by evidence that there are no unsatisfied judgments of any character against the depositor in the county where the depositor resides. (b) The deposit shall be held by the State Treasurer to satisfy, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, any execution on a judgment issued against the person making the deposit, for damages, including damages for care and loss of services, because of bodily injury to or death of any person, or for damages because of injury to or destruction of...
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6-6-102
Section 6-6-102 Tender of value if property dead or destroyed. If any of the property so replevied should die or be destroyed without fault or negligence on the part of the person in possession before the day for the delivery thereof, the obligors in the bond may tender the value to the plaintiff, his agent, or attorney; and, if such tender is refused, such obligors may obtain relief by a stay of execution. (Code 1852, §2539; Code 1867, §2967; Code 1876, §3292; Code 1886, §2966; Code 1896, §557; Code 1907, §2957; Code 1923, §6205; Code 1940, T. 7, §878.)...
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8-5-28
Section 8-5-28 Action to charge endorser or assignor on contracts assigned by writing and not covered by Uniform Commercial Code - When holder of contract excused from bringing action, obtaining judgment, etc. The holder of an endorsed or assigned contract which is not governed by the Uniform Commercial Code is excused from bringing an action, obtaining the judgment, and issuing the execution thereon when: (1) The maker has no known place of residence in the state; (2) By the use of ordinary diligence such residence cannot be ascertained; (3) The action has been commenced in the county of the residence of the maker and a summons to the first and next succeeding court returned not found by the proper officer; (4) A judgment against the maker has been defeated, in whole or in part, by a defense to the merits of such contract or writing or a setoff against any other than the endorsee or assignee; (5) Any defense, except a setoff to the merits of such contract or writing, exists which...
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6-6-280
Section 6-6-280 Election to proceed by action of ejectment or action in nature of ejectment; proceedings upon action in nature of ejectment. (a) A plaintiff commencing an action for the recovery of lands or the possession thereof has an election to proceed by an action of ejectment or by an action in the nature of an action of ejectment as is provided in subsection (b) of this section. (b) An action for the recovery of land or the possession thereof in the nature of an action in ejectment may be maintained without a statement of any lease or demise to the plaintiff or ouster by a casual or nominal ejector, and the complaint is sufficient if it alleges that the plaintiff was possessed of the premises or has the legal title thereto, properly designating or describing them, and that the defendant entered thereupon and unlawfully withholds and detains the same. This action must be commenced in the name of the real owner of the land or in the name of the person entitled to the possession...
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31-2-25
Section 31-2-25 Accountability and responsibility of officers for military property in custody; powers and duties of Adjutant General as exclusive custodian of state military property. Any officer receiving public property for military use shall be accountable and responsible for the articles so received by him, and he shall not transfer such property, or any portion thereof, to another, either as a loan or permanently, without the authority of the Adjutant General, but the Adjutant General shall have authority to order this transfer, either as a loan or permanently, whenever in his discretion the good of the service requires it, of any property of the state in the custody of the militia between different units and headquarters. An officer shall be liable to make good to the state all such property defaced, injured, destroyed, or lost by any neglect or default on his part in an action instituted in the name of the state by the Attorney General when so requested by the Adjutant General....
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