Code of Alabama - Title 12: Courts - Chapter 20 - Judicial and Other Public Records

• Article 1 General Provisions.
• Section 12-20-1 Costs and fees of substitution
  The cost of any proceedings for substitution under any of the provisions of this chapter shall be paid by the party applying for such substitution...
• Article 2 Judicial Records.
• Section 12-20-21 Copying of orders, etc., into final record not required
  The orders, judgments and decrees entered upon the minutes of a court are parts of the record of the cases to which they pertain and...
• Section 12-20-22 Original pleadings, etc., or copies thereof final record in civil actions
  The original pleadings, motions or other papers in civil actions, the original process issued thereon and all affidavits and bonds taken in a court may...
• Section 12-20-23 Preserving judgment records of abolished inferior courts of record
  The records of the judgments of any inferior court of record which heretofore ceased or hereafter ceases to exist is confided to the clerk of...
• Section 12-20-24 Removal of court records or papers
  No records or papers of any court shall be removed out of the county, except in cases of invasion or insurrection whereby the same may...
• Section 12-20-25 Taking file in pending action from office of clerk, etc
  The file pertaining to a pending action shall not be taken from the office of the clerk, register or probate judge except by an attorney...
• Section 12-20-26 Substitution of lost, etc., papers or records in civil cases - Inherent power of courts
  All courts have the inherent power, if original papers or records pertaining to matters of civil jurisdiction or to civil actions which are pending or...
• Section 12-20-27 Substitution of lost, etc., papers or records in civil cases - How made - Generally
  When original papers in civil actions have been lost, mislaid, destroyed or mutilated, a court may cause a substitution thereof to be made by directing...
• Section 12-20-28 Substitution of lost, etc., papers or records in civil cases - How made - In pending action or proceeding
  If the action or proceeding in which the substitution of a lost, mislaid, destroyed or mutilated original paper is proposed is pending and undetermined, the...
• Section 12-20-29 Substitution of lost, etc., papers or records in civil cases - How made - After determination of action or proceeding
  If, after the determination of any civil action or proceeding, the original papers, or any part thereof pertaining thereto, which are not of record are...
• Section 12-20-30 Substitution of lost, etc., papers or records in civil cases - How made - Where deed, contract, conveyance or other instrument involved
  If the record of a deed, contract, conveyance or other instrument, the record of which is by law required or authorized, is lost, mislaid, destroyed...
• Section 12-20-31 Substitution of lost, etc., papers or records in civil cases - Appeal from court order or decree granting or denying
  From any order of a circuit or district court or probate court granting or refusing substitution under this article, an appeal lies to the appropriate...
• Section 12-20-32 Substitution of appellate court records
  If the records of an appellate court, or any part thereof, are lost, mislaid, destroyed or mutilated, the same may be substituted under such rules...
• Article 3 Other Public Records.
• Section 12-20-50 Establishment or restoration of lost, etc., records of state, county, or municipality
  The circuit courts of this state shall have jurisdiction of an action by the state, a county or municipality or any citizen who will give...

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