6-5-411
Section 6-5-411 Injuries to decedent's property resulting from wrongful act, etc., causing death. (a) The personal representative of a deceased person may commence an action in a court of competent jurisdiction within the State of Alabama, and not elsewhere, and recover such damages as the jury may assess for injuries or damages to the property of the decedent resulting from the same wrongful act, omission, or negligence which caused the death of the decedent, provided the decedent could have commenced such action if the wrongful act, omission, or negligence causing the property damage had not also caused his death. (b) Such action may be commenced though there has not been prosecution, conviction, or acquittal of the defendant for the wrongful act, omission, or negligence; and it shall not abate by the death of the defendant, but may be revived against his personal representative. (c) The damages recovered are not subject to the payment of the debts or liabilities of the decedent, but...
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6-5-370
Section 6-5-370 Civil action without criminal prosecution. For any injury, either to person or property, amounting to a felony, a civil action may be commenced by the party injured without prosecution of the offender. (Code 1867, §4423; Code 1876, §2900; Code 1886, §2584; Code 1896, §22; Code 1907, §2481; Code 1923, §5691; Code 1940, T. 7, §113.)...
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11-81-61
Section 11-81-61 Election contest - Limitation of action. No civil action shall be commenced to test the validity of any election held by any municipality of this state for the purpose of issuing bonds unless the said civil action be commenced within 40 days from the date of the said election. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §285.)...
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11-81-90
Section 11-81-90 Election contest - Limitation of action. No civil action shall be commenced to test the validity of any election held by any county of this state for the purpose of issuing bonds unless the said civil action is commenced within 40 days from the date of the said election. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §102.)...
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35-11-222
Section 35-11-222 How action commenced; pleadings, practice and proceedings. Such actions, when brought in the circuit court, shall be commenced by summons and complaint. The complaint shall contain a description of the property on which the lien is claimed, and shall allege the facts necessary to entitle the plaintiff to the lien and the enforcement thereof; in all other respects, the pleadings, practice and proceedings shall be the same as in ordinary civil actions. (Code 1876, §3446; Code 1886, §3029; Code 1896, §2734; Code 1907, §4765; Code 1923, §8843; Code 1940, T. 33, §49.)...
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43-2-131
Section 43-2-131 Limitation on actions against executor or administrator. No civil action must be commenced against an executor or administrator, as such, until six months after the grant of letters testamentary or of administration, unless the executor or administrator has given notice of the disallowance of the claim. (Code 1852, §1917; Code 1867, §2276; Code 1876, §2614; Code 1886, §2263; Code 1896, §331; Code 1907, §2803; Code 1923, §6042; Acts 1931, No. 725, p. 841; Code 1940, T. 61, §119.)...
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6-5-502
Section 6-5-502 Limitation periods for product liability actions. (a) All product liability actions against an original seller must be commenced within the following time limits and not otherwise: (1) Except as specifically provided in subsections (b), (c), and (e) of this section, within one year of the time the personal injury, death, or property damage occurs; and (2) Except as specifically provided in subsections (b), (c), and (e) of this section, each element of a product liability action shall be deemed to accrue at the time the personal injury, death, or property damage occurs; (b) Where the personal injury, including personal injury resulting in death, or property damage (i) either is latent or by its nature is not discoverable in the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time of its occurrence, and (ii) is the result of ingestion of or exposure to some toxic or harmful or injury-producing substance, element or particle, including radiation, over a period of time as opposed...
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41-4-52
Section 41-4-52 Comptroller - Restrictions on receipt of revenue. The Comptroller has no authority in any civil action or proceeding commenced or directed by him, or in any other case, unless such authority is expressly given, to receive any of the state revenue. (Code 1852, §368; Code 1867, §420; Code 1876, §97; Code 1886, §108; Code 1896, §2007; Code 1907, §611; Code 1923, §818; Acts 1939, No. 112, p. 144; Code 1940, T. 55, §82.)...
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43-2-133
Section 43-2-133 Succeeding executor or administrator to be made party to civil actions. When any civil action has been commenced by or against the personal representative of a decedent, the same may be prosecuted by or against any succeeding executor or administrator, who may, on motion, be made a party. (Code 1852, §1925; Code 1867, §2284; Code 1876, §2622; Code 1886, §2265; Code 1896, §333; Code 1907, §2805; Code 1923, §6044; Code 1940, T. 61, §121.)...
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6-6-591
Section 6-6-591 Right of action and venue - Usurpation, etc., of office or franchise, etc. (a) An action may be commenced in the name of the state against the party offending in the following cases: (1) When any person usurps, intrudes into or unlawfully holds or exercises any public office, civil or military, any franchise, any profession requiring a license, certificate, or other legal authorization within this state or any office in a corporation created by the authority of this state; (2) When any public officer, civil or military, has done or suffered any act by which, under the law, he forfeits his office; or (3) When any association, or number of persons, acts within this state as a corporation without being duly incorporated. (b) The judge of the circuit court may direct the action to be commenced when he believes that any of the acts specified in subsection (a) of this section can be proved and it is necessary for the public good, or it may be commenced without the direction...
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