6-2-38
Section 6-2-38 Commencement of actions - Two years. (a) An action by a representative to recover damages for wrongful act, omission, or negligence causing the death of the decedent under Sections 6-5-391 and 6-5-410 must be commenced within two years from the death. (b) All actions by common carriers of property subject to Chapter 3 of Title 37 for recovery of their charges, or any part thereof, shall be begun within two years from the time the cause of action accrues and not after. (c) For recovery of charges, action shall be begun against common carriers of property by motor vehicles subject to this article within two years from the time the cause of action accrues and not after, except as provided in subsection (d) of this section; provided, that if claim for the overcharge has been presented in writing to the carrier within the two-year period of limitation, said period shall be extended to include six months from the time notice in writing is given by the carrier to the claimant...
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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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10A-2-11.03
Section 10A-2-11.03 Action on plan. REPEALED IN THE 2019 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2019-94 EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2020. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a) After adopting a plan of merger or share exchange, the board of directors of each corporation party to the merger, and the board of directors of the corporation whose shares will be acquired in the share exchange, shall submit the plan of merger, except as provided in subsection (g), or share exchange for approval by its shareholders. (b) For a plan of merger or share exchange to be approved: (1) The board of directors must recommend the plan of merger or share exchange to the shareholders, unless the board of directors determines that because of conflict of interest or other special circumstances it should make no recommendation and communicates the basis for its determination to the shareholders with the plan; and (2) The shareholders entitled to vote must approve the plan. (c) Subject to the corporation's articles of...
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11-52-31
Section 11-52-31 Adoption, publication, and certification of subdivision regulations; contents of regulations; bond. (a) Except where the county commission is responsible for the regulation of subdivision regulations within the territorial jurisdiction of a municipal planning commission pursuant to Section 11-52-30, the municipal planning commission shall adopt subdivision regulations governing the subdivision of land within its jurisdiction. The regulations may provide for the proper arrangement of streets in relation to other existing or planned streets and to the master plan, for adequate and convenient open spaces for traffic, utilities, access of fire-fighting apparatus, recreation, light and air and for the avoidance of congestion of population, including minimum width and area of lots. The regulations may include provisions as to the extent to which streets and other ways shall be graded and improved and to which water and sewer and other utility mains, piping, or other...
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37-2-21
Section 37-2-21 Bills of lading or receipts - When issued; contents; receipt for cotton in bales; common-law liability not affected. (a) Every transportation company receiving property for transportation, originating and terminating in this state, shall issue to the shipper a receipt or bill of lading therefor in which shall be stated the class or classes of freight shipped and the rate to the point of destination and aggregate charge made for the transportation and shall be liable to the lawful holder thereof for any loss, damage or injury to such property negligently caused by it or by any transportation company to which said property may be delivered, or over whose lines such property may pass; and no contract, stipulation, receipt, rule or regulation contained in said receipt or bill of lading, or otherwise, shall exempt such transportation company from the liability hereby imposed; but nothing in this subsection shall deprive any holder of such receipt or bill of lading of any...
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37-2-61
Section 37-2-61 Claim for damages. (a) When any property, chattels, or goods have been received by any transportation company for transportation, and such goods, chattels, or property shall be lost, destroyed or injured, or shall not be delivered according to the contract of shipment, the shipper, consignor, consignee, or other person entitled to demand and receive them shall make out an itemized statement of the goods, property or chattels so lost, destroyed or injured, or not delivered, setting forth the kind of articles, and the number thereof, and the value and the extent or amount of damages, and shall, after making, subscribing and swearing to the same before an officer authorized to administer an oath, deliver the same to the said transportation company, agent, or officer of said transportation company so receiving said shipment within 60 days after said loss, destruction, injury, or failure to deliver such goods, property or chattels. (b) When such verified statement of such...
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6-10-34
Section 6-10-34 Contest of exemption claim - Proceedings when inventory discloses personalty not embraced by claim of exemption. When, on a contest of a claim of exemption to personal property, an inventory filed by the defendant on the plaintiff's demand discloses other personal property owned by the defendant and subject to sale under process not embraced in the claim of exemption, the defendant, at the time of filing the inventory, shall deliver such property to the officer making the levy, who shall, whether he has returned the process or not, in case of an execution sell the property as in other cases and apply the proceeds to the satisfaction of the execution or, in case of an attachment or other mesne process, shall hold the property to await the final determination of the action. In either event, he shall make due return of the facts to the court. (Code 1886, §2530; Code 1896, §2056; Code 1907, §4183; Code 1923, §7905; Code 1940, T. 7, §648.)...
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6-6-597
Section 6-6-597 Addition of person rightly entitled to office; entry of judgment on such right; delivery of books, papers, and property. (a) When the action is commenced against a person for usurping an office, the name of the person rightly entitled to the office, with a statement of his right thereto, may be added, and, when added, judgment may be entered upon the right of the defendant and also upon the right of the party so alleged to be entitled or only upon the right of the defendant, as justice may require. (b) If judgment is entered upon the right of the person so alleged to be entitled and the same is in favor of such person, he is entitled, after taking the oath of office and executing such official bond as may be required, to take upon himself the execution of the office, and it is his duty, immediately thereafter, to demand of the defendant all the books, papers, and property in his custody, or within his power, belonging to the office. On refusal or neglect to deliver over...
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11-51-151
Section 11-51-151 Notice and hearings; granting of injunctive relief. Upon the filing and presentation of a petition as authorized in this division, it shall be the duty of the court to set a day for the hearing of the action upon not less than 10 nor more than 15 days' notice thereof to be given the respondents, the notice to be in such form as the court may direct, and at such hearing, upon reasonable cause, to grant a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction restraining the respondents from further operation or conduct of the business, occupation, trade, or profession, and no bond shall be required of the petitioner as a condition thereto. The court shall not grant a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction unless it has reasonable cause to believe that the respondent owes a debt to the petitioner for a privilege or business license or excise tax and that the petitioner has complied with Section 11-51-150. The court shall, upon final hearing, if the proof...
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31-2-31
Section 31-2-31 Sale, pawn; purchase or unauthorized retention of military property; seizure, etc., of unlawfully retained property. Any person who sells, pawns, purchases, retains or has in his possession or custody, without right, any military property belonging to this state or the United States, or any unit of the armed forces of the state, and who, after proper demand, refuses to deliver the same to any officer entitled to take possession thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor if the value of such property is $500.00 or less, and is guilty of a felony if the value of such property exceeds $500.00. Any person belonging to the armed forces of the state who, contrary to the order of the proper officer, retains in his possession or control any military property of this state or of the United States is guilty of a misdemeanor if the value of such property is $500.00 or less, and is guilty of a felony if the value of such property exceeds $500.00. Any commanding officer may take possession...
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