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.
Ala. Code § 6-5-370
Civil Action Without Criminal Prosecution.
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Glazner v. Glazner (2003)
Most recently applied in Rismed Oncology Systems, Inc. v. Baron (March 2014)
(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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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Alabama Legislature (ALISON). Reproduced from public-domain Alabama statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.