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37-2-34
Section 37-2-34 Joint actions against connecting carriers. When goods, wares, merchandise or
other personal property are shipped to some point of delivery in this state over two or more
connecting lines of transportation companies, both or all of which are engaged in the business
of a transportation company in the State of Alabama, and such goods, wares and merchandise
or other personal property are lost, destroyed, or damaged because of unreasonable delay in
the delivery thereof or by the neglect of duty of any such transportation company or connecting
transportation companies, and the owner or consignee of such freight sustains injury or loss
thereby, and payment for such injury or loss or destruction is not made after notice to and
demand therefor of such connecting and delivering companies within 30 days thereafter, the
owner or consignee thereof may bring a civil action against such delivering and connecting
companies jointly; the action to be instituted in the county of delivery,...
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6-5-487
Section 6-5-487 Advance payments by defendant or insurer not admission of liability; advance
payments in excess of award not repayable. (a) In all actions for medical liability, any advance
payment made by the defendant or his insurer to or for the plaintiff, or any other person,
may not be construed as an admission of liability for injuries or damages suffered by the
plaintiff or anyone else. Evidence of such advance payment is not admissible until there is
a final judgment in favor of the plaintiff, in which event the court shall reduce the judgment
to the plaintiff to the extent of advance payment. The advance payment shall inure to the
exclusive credit of the defendant or his insurer making the payment. In the event the advance
payment exceeds the liability of the defendant or the insurer making it, the court shall order
any adjustment necessary to equalize the amount which each defendant is obligated to pay,
exclusive of cost. (b) In no case shall an advance payment in excess of...
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6-5-576
Section 6-5-576 Advance payments by defendant or insurer not admission of liability; advance
payments in excess of award not repayable. (a) In all legal service liability actions, any
advance payment made by the defendant or his insurer to or for the plaintiff, or any other
person, may not be construed as an admission of liability for injuries or damages suffered
by the plaintiff or anyone else. Evidence of such advance payment is not admissible until
there is a final judgment in favor of the plaintiff, in which event the court shall reduce
the judgment to the plaintiff to the extent of advance payment. The advance payment shall
inure to the exclusive credit of the defendant or his insurer making the payment. In the event
the advance payment exceeds the liability of the defendant or the insurer making it, the court
shall order any adjustment necessary to equalize the amount which each defendant is obligated
to pay, exclusive of costs. (b) In no case shall an advance payment in excess...
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9-12-7
Section 9-12-7 Proceedings as to violations of chapter - Bonds for stay of sale of condemned
boats, etc., pending appeal. The sale of the boat or vessel is not stayed by an appeal unless
the appellant enters into a bond in a penalty of twice the value of the boat or vessel, her
tackle, etc., the value to be determined by the judge of the district court, with sufficient
surety, payable to the State of Alabama, with condition to prosecute the appeal to effect.
The bond must be returned, with the other papers in the case, to the circuit court; and, if
the judgment of the district court is affirmed, judgment shall be rendered against all the
obligors therein for the amount of the fines not paid and for the value of the boat, her tackle,
etc., to be ascertained by proof, as well as the costs of the circuit court. (Code 1852, §1126;
Code 1867, §1306; Code 1876, §1614; Code 1886, §4725; Code 1896, §5580; Code 1907, §7501;
Code 1923, §5109; Code 1940, T. 8, §170.)...
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27-10-53
Section 27-10-53 Defense of action or proceeding by insurer. (a) Before an unauthorized insurer
shall file, or cause to be filed, any pleading in any action or proceeding instituted against
it under Sections 27-10-51 and 27-10-52, such insurer shall: (1) Procure a certificate of
authority to transact insurance in this state; or (2) Deposit with the clerk of the court
in which such action or proceeding is pending cash or securities or file with such clerk a
bond with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the court, in an amount to be fixed
by the court sufficient to secure the payment of any final judgment which may be entered in
such action. The court may, in its discretion, make an order dispensing with such deposit
or bond where the insurer makes a showing satisfactory to the court that it maintains in a
state of the United States funds or securities, in trust or otherwise, sufficient and available
to satisfy any final judgment which may be entered in such action or...
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6-5-156.3
Section 6-5-156.3 Standard of proof; damages and other relief; jurisdiction and powers of court;
appointment of receiver; eviction of tenant. (a) The plaintiff is required by a preponderance
of the evidence to establish that a drug-related nuisance exists. The plaintiff is required
by clear and convincing evidence to establish that the owner of the property who is not a
resident or in actual possession of the property was criminally culpable in aiding and abetting
in the drug related nuisance. (b) If the existence of a drug-related nuisance is found, the
judgment may include actual damages and an injunction to restrain, abate, and prevent the
continuance or recurrence of the drug-related nuisance. The court may grant declaratory relief,
mandatory orders, or any other relief deemed necessary to accomplish the purposes of the injunction
or order and enforce the judgment or order. (c) The court may retain jurisdiction of the case
for the purpose of enforcing its orders. (d) If the...
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6-5-755
Section 6-5-755 Recovery; contribution. (a) In an action against a manufacturer and one or
more other defendants, including other manufacturers, for death or injury to person or damage
to property arising out of an accident, the right of the plaintiff to recover jointly and
severally against such defendants found liable is preserved. (b) Notwithstanding subsection
(a), in an action arising out of such accident, if the respective or comparative responsibility
of tortfeasors is an issue, then the jury shall return special verdicts, or in the absence
of a jury the court shall make special findings, allocating the percentage of responsibility
attributable to each defendant found to have proximately caused the accident. (c) Responsibility
for the accident may be allocated to a nonparty in an action under the procedure described
in subsection (b) if each of the following requirements are satisfied: (1) A defendant affirmatively
pleads the responsibility of a nonparty as a proximate cause of...
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6-6-286
Section 6-6-286 Proceedings upon defendant's suggestion of adverse possession. (a) When an
action is commenced to recover land or the possession thereof, the defendant may, at any time
before the trial, suggest upon the record that he, and those whose possession he has, have,
for three years next before the commencement of the action, had adverse possession thereof,
which must be construed to mean the same character of possession as will put in operation
the statute of limitations. In such case, if the jury finds for the plaintiff, it must also
ascertain by its verdict whether such suggestion is true or false. If the jury finds it to
be false, it must return a verdict for the damages as in ordinary cases. If the jury finds
it to be true, it must assess the value, at the time of trial, of the permanent improvements
made by the defendant, or those whose estate he has, and also ascertain by its verdict the
value of the lands and of the use and occupation thereof, not including the...
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15-6-40
Section 15-6-40 Appeal to circuit court; form of undertaking on appeal. (a) Any person required
to keep the peace under the provisions of Article 2 of this chapter by any judge other than
a judge of an appellate or circuit court is entitled, on entering into an undertaking with
sufficient sureties in a sum equal to that required of him to keep the peace for the prosecution
of an appeal and in the meantime to keep the peace, to an appeal to the circuit court of the
county. The judge from whose order the appeal is taken may require such witnesses as he thinks
necessary to enter into an undertaking, in the sum of $100.00 each, to appear at such court.
(b) Any person committed to jail by any such judge for failing to give security to keep the
peace may appeal to the circuit court and may thereupon be discharged from custody on giving
bond with surety, in such penalty as the judge may prescribe, conditioned for his appearance
at such court and to keep the peace towards all the people of the...
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45-27-81
Section 45-27-81 Escambia County Law Library and Judidcial Administration Fund. (a) In Escambia
County, in order to provide a special fund for the creation and maintenance of the law library
and for the purposes of judicial administration as further specified in this section, there
shall be taxed as additional court costs the sum of thirty dollars ($30) in each civil or
quasi-civil action at law, small claims case, suit in equity, criminal case, traffic case,
quasi-criminal case, juvenile court case, proceeding on forfeited bail bond, or a proceeding
on a forfeited bond given in connection with an appeal from a judgment of conviction in any
district or municipal court to each circuit court or to the juvenile court hereinafter filed
in, arising in, or brought by appeal, certiorari, or otherwise to the circuit court or district
court or to the juvenile court in Escambia County. The costs shall be collected as other costs
in cases are collected by the clerk of the court and shall be paid...
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