Before such attachment is issued, the plaintiff, or his agent or attorney must make affidavit, setting forth the amount that is or will be due for rent and advances, or either, as the case may be, or, if the rent is not payable in money, the value of the part of the crop or other things agreed to be paid as rent, that one of the causes for issuing an attachment prescribed in section 35-9-34 exists, and that the attachment is not sued out for the purpose of vexing or harassing the defendant; and must also execute a bond in double the amount claimed, with sufficient surety, payable to the defendant, and with condition that the plaintiff will prosecute the attachment to effect, and pay the defendant all such damages as he may sustain from the wrongful or vexatious suing out of such attachment.
Structure Code of Alabama
Chapter 9 - Landlord and Tenant.
Article 2 - Liens of Landlord.
Division 1 - Liens for Advances and Rent of Lands.
Section 35-9-30 - Lien Declared.
Section 35-9-31 - Maturity of Rent and Advances.
Section 35-9-32 - Continuation of Lien and Attachment to Crop of Succeeding Year.
Section 35-9-33 - Assignment of Claim for Rent and Advances.
Section 35-9-34 - When Lien May Be Enforced by Attachment.
Section 35-9-35 - Affidavit and Bond.
Section 35-9-36 - Issuance and Return of Attachment; Trial; Property Leviable.
Section 35-9-37 - Relation Between Party Furnishing Land and Party Furnishing Labor.
Section 35-9-38 - Failure or Refusal of Tenant to Plant Crop.
Section 35-9-39 - Levy Upon Crop of Subtenant.
Section 35-9-40 - Subrogation of Subtenant to Rights, Liens, and Remedies of Landlord.
Section 35-9-41 - Right of Subtenant to Require Attachment Against Tenant in Chief.
Section 35-9-42 - Applicability of Division to Tenant in Chief and Subtenant.