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 which have been determined are lost, mislaid, destroyed or mutilated, to cause a substitution thereof, and the substituted paper or record is of equal validity with the original.
Structure Code of Alabama
Chapter 20 - Judicial and Other Public Records.
Section 12-20-21 - Copying of Orders, etc., Into Final Record Not Required.
Section 12-20-22 - Original Pleadings, etc., or Copies Thereof Final Record in Civil Actions.
Section 12-20-23 - Preserving Judgment Records of Abolished Inferior Courts of Record.
Section 12-20-24 - Removal of Court Records or Papers.
Section 12-20-25 - Taking File in Pending Action From Office of Clerk, Etc.