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6-6-430
Section 6-6-430 Filing of bond; discharge of money or property from garnishment; proceedings
as if bond not executed; judgment; discharge of garnishee. (a) When garnishment has been issued
in aid of a pending action or upon a judgment, the defendant may make and file with the judge
or clerk issuing the garnishment bond in such sum as the judge or clerk may prescribe, not
exceeding twice the amount of the plaintiff's demand, payable to the plaintiff, with sufficient
surety, to be approved by such judge or clerk, conditioned to pay the amount for which the
garnishee may be found indebted or liable to the defendant and the cost of the garnishment.
Thereupon, the money or property in the hands of the garnishee is discharged from the garnishment
and the garnishee relieved of all liability therefor to the plaintiff; but the garnishee must
answer, and, except as is otherwise provided in this article, the case must proceed and be
determined as if such bond had not been executed. (b) If the...
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8-8-12
Section 8-8-12 Enforcement of usurious contracts. (a) Except as otherwise permitted by law,
all contracts for the payment of interest upon the loan or forbearance of goods, money, things
in action, or upon any contract whatever at a higher rate than is prescribed in this chapter
are usurious and cannot be enforced except as to the principal. (b) The borrower of money
at a usurious rate of interest shall not in any case be required to pay more than the principal
sum borrowed, and if any interest has been paid, the same must be deducted from the principal
and judgment entered for the balance only; provided, however, that the defense of usury may
not be pleaded against a holder in due course of any negotiable instrument. (Code 1852, §1523;
Code 1867, §1831; Code 1876, §2092; Code 1886, §1754; Code 1896, §2630; Code 1907, §4623;
Code 1923, §8567; Acts 1931, No. 650, p. 783; Code 1940, T. 9, §65.)...
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19-3-37
Section 19-3-37 Examination and auditing of account; judgment. Upon the day so appointed, or
any day to which the hearing may be continued, the register or clerk must proceed to examine
and audit the account; and upon such auditing, the assignor or any creditor or party in interest,
his representative or transferee, may move the register or clerk to charge the trustee with
sums other than those with which he has charged himself, or may object to the allowance of
any item for which he claims credit; and such matters must be heard and the account stated
and passed upon by the register or clerk and distribution made and judgment to creditors as
in insolvent estates administered in the court of probate; and after deducting the costs and
expenses of administration, including five percent commissions to the trustee on the amount
of money with which he is charged, and the allowance of reasonable charges for the preparation
of the deed of assignment, and after the discharge of all liens or...
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28-4-288
Section 28-4-288 Execution of bond by defendant or claimant for recovery of seized vehicle,
etc., pending appeal; proceedings upon failure of bondsmen to deliver said vehicle, etc.,
upon affirmance of judgment upon appeal, etc. 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 and has been condemned by the circuit court that tried the action, the
defendant in the proceedings or the claimant of the property, pending an appeal to the Supreme
Court or Court of Civil Appeals, may, upon motion, have the court immediately appraise the
value of said property and of the several items separately and shall have the right to execute
a bond with two good sureties in double the appraised value of such property or of any item
or items thereof, to be approved by the clerk or register of the circuit court, conditioned,
in the event the appeal is affirmed or reversed and the conveyance, vehicle,...
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35-4-137
Section 35-4-137 Release of land from lien upon execution of bond. When any lis pendens in
an action or proceeding to enforce a lien has been filed and recorded in the office of the
judge of probate, as prescribed in Sections 35-4-131 and 35-4-132, the person owning or claiming
the land described in the lis pendens may at any time, before a judgment is entered enforcing
the lien, nullify the notice given by such lis pendens by executing a bond with sufficient
surety in double the amount of the fair market value of the land described in the lis pendens
and as to which the lis pendens is to be nullified, the amount of the bond and the surety
or sureties thereon to be approved by the judge of probate. The bond shall be payable to the
judge of probate and conditioned to pay any sum of money found to be a lien against such land,
up to the fair market value of the said land, said payment to be made by 12:00 noon of the
day and at the place appointed for the sale thereof. When said bond has...
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6-3-2
Section 6-3-2 Venue of actions - Against individuals. (a) In proceedings of a legal nature
against individuals: (1) All actions for the recovery of land, of the possession thereof,
or for a trespass thereto must be commenced in the county where the land or a material part
thereof lies. (2) All actions on contracts, except as may be otherwise provided, must be commenced
in the county in which the defendant or one of the defendants resides if such defendant has
within the state a permanent residence. (3) All other personal actions, if the defendant or
one of the defendants has within the state a permanent residence, may be commenced in the
county of such residence or in the county in which the act or omission complained of may have
been done or may have occurred. (b) In proceedings of an equitable nature against individuals:
(1) All actions where real estate is the subject matter of the action, whether it is the exclusive
subject matter of the action or not, must be commenced in the...
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6-6-183
Section 6-6-183 Complaint for discovery of assets - Execution returned "no property found"
or creditor without lien or judgment; answer of debtor. A creditor, having obtained a judgment
upon which execution has issued and been returned "no property found" or a creditor
without a lien or judgment may, in a court of competent jurisdiction of the county in which
the judgment debtor resides or in a like court of the county in which the judgment was entered,
file a complaint for the discovery of the assets of the debtor subject to the payment of debts;
and the debtor must answer on oath and disclose all property, real or personal, in which he
may have or may claim an interest, legal or equitable; all moneys, effects, or choses in action
in which he may have or may claim an interest, legal or equitable; where such property, real
or personal, is situated or may be found; who has or may claim possession thereof; in whose
possession are the moneys, effects, or choses in action in which he has...
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12-12-31
Section 12-12-31 Small claims actions; attorney representation; when; attorney fees; prosecution
of assigned claims; license required. (a) The district court shall exercise exclusive jurisdiction
over all civil actions in which the matter in controversy, exclusive of interest and costs,
does not exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000). These actions shall be placed on a small claims
docket by each district court and shall be processed according to uniform rules of simplified
civil procedure as may be promulgated by the Supreme Court. (b) A party, including an individual,
partnership, or corporation, may appear in cases on the small claims docket of district court
with or without representation by an attorney. If a partnership appears without representation
by an attorney, the person representing the partnership shall be a partner or employee of
the partnership and if a corporation appears without representation by an attorney, the person
representing the corporation shall be an officer or...
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17-16-53
Section 17-16-53 Contest of senator or representative in Legislature - Costs taxed. The package
mailed by the clerk must be opened by the presiding officer and presented to the house over
which he or she presides for such action as such house may deem proper. On the determination
of the contest, the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House, as the case may be,
must certify the result thereof to the clerk of the court in which the statement of contest
was filed. The certificate must be filed in the office of the clerk and shall have the force
and effect of a judgment against the unsuccessful party for the costs of the contest. And
the clerk having taxed the costs, allowing the fees and costs allowed for similar services
in civil cases at law, must issue execution for the amount thereof in the name of the successful
party. If the party contesting the election is the unsuccessful party, the unsuccessful party
sureties must pay the costs of the contest. (Code 1896, §1692; Code...
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4-3-54
Section 4-3-54 Bonds - Security for payment of principal and interest. In the discretion of
the authority, any bonds may be issued under and secured by an indenture between the authority
and a trustee. Said trustee may be a private person or corporation, including, but not limited
to, any trust company or bank having trust powers, whether such bank or trust company is located
within or without the state. In any such indenture or resolution providing for the issuance
of bonds, the authority may pledge for payment of the principal of and the interest on such
bonds any of its revenues, rents, income or funds to which its right then exists or may thereafter
come into existence and may assign, as security for such payment, any of its leases, franchises,
permits and contracts and, in any such indenture, the authority may mortgage any of its properties,
including any that may be thereafter acquired by it. Any such pledge of revenues shall be
valid and binding from the time it is made, and the...
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