6-10-7
Section 6-10-7 Wages, salaries, or other compensation of laborers or employees for personal services. (a) The wages, salaries, or other compensation of laborers or employees, residents of this state, for personal services, shall be exempt from levy under writs of garnishment or other process for the collection of debts contracted or judgments entered in tort in an amount equal to 75 percent of such wages, salaries, or other compensation due or to become due to such laborers or employees, and the levy as to such percentage of their wages, salaries, or other compensation shall be void. The court issuing the writ or levy shall show thereon the amount of the claim of the plaintiff and the court costs in the proceedings. If at any time during the pendency of the proceedings in the court a judgment is entered for a different amount, then the court shall notify the garnishee of the correct amount due by the defendant under the writ or levy. The garnishee shall retain 25 percent of the wages,...
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11-2-29
Section 11-2-29 Requirement of additional bonds for county officers whose terms extended - Rights and remedies of sureties on bonds among themselves. In any case when an additional bond has been required, the sureties in either bond, who may have been compelled to make any payment thereon for the principal obligor, have the same remedies against the sureties in the remaining bonds as cosureties have against each other and may recover against such sureties such an amount as shall be in the same proportion to the sum paid by the plaintiff as the aggregate penalty of the two bonds bears to the penalty of the bond of the defendant, apportioning the same among the solvent sureties. (Code 1852, §143; Code 1867, §182; Code 1876, §191; Code 1886, §286; Code 1896, §3118; Code 1907, §1534; Code 1923, §2668; Code 1940, T. 41, §67.)...
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28-4-287
Section 28-4-287 Execution of bond by defendant or claimant for recovery of seized vehicle, etc., pending condemnation action; proceedings upon failure of defendant or claimant to deliver said vehicle, etc., upon entry of judgment of condemnation. Whenever a conveyance, vehicle of any kind or animal used in drawing the same is seized by an officer of the state under the prohibition laws of this state, the defendant in the proceedings or the claimant of the property shall have the right to execute a bond in double the value of such property or of any item thereof, with good and sufficient surety, to be approved by the sheriff or the register or clerk of the circuit court and conditioned, in the event the said property is condemned, to deliver the same to the sheriff within 15 days from the date of such judgment of condemnation and to pay any difference between the value of said property at the time of the seizure and the time of the delivery to the sheriff after condemnation, such...
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40-10-77
Section 40-10-77 Defense of action fails on grounds other than that taxes were not due. THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED BY ACT 2018-494 IN THE 2018 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2020. TO SEE THE AMENDED VERSION, SEE THE VERSION LABELED PENDING. If, in an action brought against such purchaser or other person claiming under the purchaser to recover possession of lands sold for taxes, the defendant claims and defends under the tax title and the defense fails on the ground that such sale was invalid for any reason other than that the taxes were not due, and the plaintiff recovers, the court shall forthwith, on the motion of the defendant, ascertain the amount of taxes for which the lands were liable at the time of the sale and for the payment of which they were sold, with interest thereon from the day of sale, and the amount of such taxes on the lands, if any, as the defendant or the person under whom he or she claims has, since such sale, lawfully paid or assumed, in case of the state,...
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6-5-543
Section 6-5-543 Damages against health care provider to be itemized; future damages over $150,000 to be paid by periodic payments over period of years; judgment to specify payment terms; requirement to post security or provide evidence of insurance; future damages not to be reduced to present value; attorney's fees; termination of periodic payments; contempt of court upon continuing pattern of failure to make payments; modification of judgment; legislative intent. (a) In any action for injury or damages whether in contract or in tort against a health care provider based on a breach of the standard of care the damages assessed by the trier of fact shall be itemized as follows: (1) Past damages, (2) Future damages, (3) Punitive damages. The trier of fact shall not reduce any future damages to present value. If the trial court determines that any one or more of the above categories is not recoverable in the action, that category or categories shall be omitted from the itemization. (b)...
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6-6-253
Section 6-6-253 Interpleader by defendant of adverse claimant of property; force and effect of bonds given. (a) If the defendant in a detinue action interpleads a claimant of the property and the defendant is discharged as provided in the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure and if the defendant has retained possession of the chattels, giving bond, the court may order the chattels to be delivered to such claimant on his giving bond with sufficient surety, to be approved by the clerk, payable to the plaintiff in the penalty of the bond of the defendant with condition that if he is not successful in the action he will, within 20 days thereafter, deliver the chattels and pay all such damages as may be assessed for the detention thereof and all costs adjudged against him. If such person refuses or neglects to give such bond for three days after service of his first pleading or motion in the action, the chattels must be delivered to the plaintiff on his giving bond with sufficient surety, to be...
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12-19-50
Section 12-19-50 Issuance of execution against plaintiff or appellant for own costs; issuance of execution against sheriff, etc., failing to return, levy, or collect execution issued against plaintiff or appellant for costs. (a) The Clerk of the Supreme Court, clerks of the courts of appeals, clerks of the circuit courts and probate judges, upon return of an execution "no property found" against the defendant by the proper officer of the county in which the judgment was entered, or, if the execution is from the Supreme Court or courts of appeals, of the county from which the case was brought, may issue execution against the plaintiff or appellant, as the case may be, for the costs actually created by the plaintiff or appellant, but for none other, to be collected and returned as other executions. (b) Judgment may be entered on motion in the circuit court of such county, in the name of the clerk or probate judge issuing the execution, against the sheriff or his sureties, or either of...
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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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6-6-463
Section 6-6-463 Disposition of claims of other persons suggested by garnishee. (a) When the garnishee, by his answer as originally filed or by any supplemental answer thereafter, alleges, at any time before final judgment against him, that he has been notified that another person claims title to, or an interest in, the debt, demand, money, or effects which, by his answer, he has admitted to be due or owing or to be in his possession, the clerk must issue notice to the suggested claimant to appear within 30 days after service of the notice and propound his claim and contest with the plaintiff the right to such debt, demand, money or effects. (b) If he appears, he must be required to propound his claim in writing and make oath thereto, upon which the plaintiff must take issue in law or in fact, and the issue in fact must be tried by a jury, if required by either party. If the issue is found for the plaintiff, judgment must be entered against the garnishee on his answer or, if for the...
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15-13-132
Section 15-13-132 Conditional forfeiture notice to defendant and sureties. A notice of the rendition of the judgment set forth in Section 15-13-131 shall be issued by the clerk of the court and served according to the terms as established in this article within 90 days of the court's conditional forfeiture order to the defendant and sureties. The notice may be in the following form: STATE OF ALABAMA ___ (or City of ___) Defendant vs ___ County ___ Surety Case No. ___ ___ Surety Charge: ___ Conditional Forfeiture Notice To: ___ ___ Court Defendant ___ ___ Surety You are hereby notified that your name appears as a surety on the bond in the above styled case. This case was called for trial on ___ (date) and the defendant was not present to answer. Therefore, a conditional forfeiture of ___ dollars was entered against you. You shall file a written response within 28 days after you...
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