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Ala. Code § 35-11-226

Enforcement of Judgments.

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case United States v. Carmichael (2006)

Most recently applied in Peoples Bank v. SAIIA Construction, LLC (In re B & M Properties, LLC) (July 2006)

(Code 1886, §§3036, 3037; Code 1896, §§2741, 2742; Code 1907, §§4772, 4773; Code 1923, §§8850, 8851; Code 1940, T. 33, §§54, 55.)

(a) Judgments establishing the lien, and ordering the property sold for the satisfaction thereof, may be enforced by writs of fieri facias or venditioni exponas; but if by fieri facias, the clerk shall indorse thereon the fact that the lien has been established, and a description of the property.

(b) Upon the entry of such judgment by the district court, all the papers and a certified transcript of the judgment shall be transmitted to the clerk of the circuit court; and thereupon such clerk shall enter the action on the execution docket, record the judgment, and issue a writ of fieri facias or venditioni exponas, as on judgments entered in that court.

Official source: Alabama Legislature (ALISON). Reproduced from public-domain Alabama statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.