US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

Article 1 Partition Actions.

• Section 6-8-1 — Trial of title or adverse claim issues.

Article 2 Funds Due Foreign Residents.

• Section 6-8-20 — Payment to consular officer of estate or land sale funds due nonrepresented foreigners.

Article 3 Abstracts for Judicial Sales.

• Section 6-8-30 — Power to have abstract of title made; inspection thereof by prospective purchasers; costs of abstract.

Article 4 Notices and Hours of Sale.

• Section 6-8-40 — Subscribing, taking and filing of weekly newspapers by probate judges.
• Section 6-8-41 — Hours of sale.
• Section 6-8-60 — Designation of newspaper advertisement to be published in; disregard of designation by officer; publication requirements imposed by law, mortgage or other contract.
• Section 6-8-61 — Length of publication when not otherwise provided; exception.
• Section 6-8-62 — Specification of weeks and days; time for publication prior to proceeding or act to be done.
• Section 6-8-63 — Suspension or discontinuance of paper making publication before publication made or completed.
• Section 6-8-64 — Costs of publication - Rates; applicability of section.
• Section 6-8-65 — Costs of publication - Affidavit that no agreement exists between officer and publisher, etc., and that sum charged is lowest.
• Section 6-8-66 — Copies of each issue of paper containing advertisement to be furnished to parties.
• Section 6-8-67 — Newspapers as evidence of publication.
• Section 6-8-68 — Executors, administrators and guardians in probate court.
• Section 6-8-69 — Postponement of sale; publication of original notice.

Article 5 Counterclaims.

• Section 6-8-80 — Judgments.
• Section 6-8-81 — Debt or liquidated demand due comaker or principal.
• Section 6-8-82 — Exemptions - Wages of head of family.
• Section 6-8-83 — Exemptions - Negotiated commercial paper.
• Section 6-8-84 — Effect of statute of limitations.
• Section 6-8-85 — Judgment for defendant - Permissive counterclaims.
• Section 6-8-86 — Judgment for defendant - Compulsory counterclaims.

Article 6 Trials.

• Section 6-8-100 — Answer of tender; judgment thereon.
• Section 6-8-101 — Litigation on merits after loss on certain defenses not bar to raising of same defenses on appeal.
• Section 6-8-102 — Filing of copies in place of missing pleadings, etc.
• Section 6-8-103 — Allowing omissions in testimony to be supplied.
• Section 6-8-104 — Limit of two new trials.