Code of Alabama
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 12-13-17 - Liability of Sheriff, Deputies, etc., for Failure to Make Money on or Return Execution Issued by Probate Court, Etc.

For a failure to make money on or for failing to return any execution issued from or returnable to the probate court or for not paying over money collected on such execution, the sheriff, coroner or other officer and his sureties are liable to the same penalties and judgments as in like cases in the circuit court, the proceedings to be instituted and conducted in the probate court in the same manner as in the circuit court, either party having the right, on request, to a trial of all questions of fact by a jury, and an appeal from the judgment entered may be taken to the circuit or Supreme Court.

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Code of Alabama

Title 12 - Courts.

Chapter 13 - Probate Courts.

Article 1 - General Provisions.

Section 12-13-1 - Jurisdiction Generally; Validity and Presumptions to Be Accorded to Judgments, Orders, etc., of Probate Courts.

Section 12-13-2 - Person in Federal Service and Spouse Thereof Who Die While Living Within State Deemed Resident of State and of County in Which Living for Purposes of Probate Jurisdiction.

Section 12-13-3 - When Courts Deemed Open for Granting of Letters Testamentary, etc., and Making of Orders Grantable as Matter of Course; Limitation Period for Setting Aside or Amendment of Orders or Decrees and Reopening of Cases.

Section 12-13-4 - Where Cases, etc., May Be Heard, etc., in Counties Where Terms of Court Held in Places Other Than County Seat.

Section 12-13-5 - Form, Execution, Return, etc., of Letters Testamentary, etc., and Process of Probate Court Generally.