§ 6-6-570 — Judgment - Recordation

Alabama § 6-6-570

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 6: Civil Practice
• Ch. 6: Remedies
• Art. 12: Quieting Title and Determination of Claims to Land
• Div. 2: Proceedings in Rem

Text

(a) The court, in the judgment, shall order that a certified copy of the judgment be recorded in the office of the judge of probate for the county in which the lands lie, and direct in whose names the judgment shall be indexed on the direct index and in whose names the judgment shall be indexed on the indirect index of the record.
(b) Within
30 days
after the
judgment
becomes final, with no possibility of post-trial motions or appellate review
,
the judge of probate shall accept from the prevailing counsel or party
a certified copy
of the judgment
in the office of the judge of probate for record and tax the expense thereof as part of the cost of the case. The judge of probate shall record
the
copy in the same book and manner in which deeds are recorded and index the same as in
the
judgment ordered or directed.
The
judgment shall be binding upon all persons except as is provided in this division.

Legislative History

(Acts 1923, No. 526, p. 699; Code 1923, §9923; Code 1940, T. 7, §1127; Act 2023-520, §1.)