Code of Alabama
Article 6 - Detinue.
Section 6-6-261 - Execution Upon Judgment.

If the party in whose favor the judgment is given is in possession of the property in controversy, he shall retain it or, if the property is in possession of the officer seizing it, he shall deliver it to the successful party, and a writ of execution will issue for the damages and costs of the action. If the property is in possession of the losing party, the execution shall command the sheriff to take the property in controversy and deliver it to the successful party and, if the property cannot be had, that he make the value thereof out of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of the party and his sureties, if any, against whom the judgment is entered and shall command that he so make the damages assessed and costs of the action.

Structure Code of Alabama

Code of Alabama

Title 6 - Civil Practice.

Chapter 6 - Remedies.

Article 6 - Detinue.

Section 6-6-250 - Duty of Clerk to Require Taking of Property by Sheriff Unless Defendant Gives Bond; Disposition of Property on Failure to Give Bond.

Section 6-6-251 - Service of Process in Action for Recovery of Household Furniture and Equipment; Effect Thereof.

Section 6-6-252 - Intervention by Claimant of Property; Disposition of Property.

Section 6-6-253 - Interpleader by Defendant of Adverse Claimant of Property; Force and Effect of Bonds Given.

Section 6-6-254 - Return of Bonds; Liability of Sheriff for Failing to Do So; Compelling Making of Return.

Section 6-6-255 - Proceedings When Officer Fails to Find and Take Property.

Section 6-6-256 - Assessment of Value and Damages and Judgment - Trial of Action.

Section 6-6-257 - Assessment of Value and Damages and Judgment - Dismissal of Action.

Section 6-6-258 - Assessment of Value and Damages and Judgment - Failure of Defendant to Appear and Plead.

Section 6-6-259 - Actions by Mortgagees or Vendor in Conditional Sale Contract, etc., Against Mortgagors or Vendees, Etc.

Section 6-6-260 - Recovery of Attorney's Fee by Person Claiming to Be Owner of Lost or Stolen Property.

Section 6-6-261 - Execution Upon Judgment.

Section 6-6-262 - Execution, Garnishment, or Other Process on Bond.

Section 6-6-263 - Compelling Restoration of Property by Execution or Attachment; Form of Writ.

Section 6-6-264 - Issuance of Writs Until Judgment Satisfied.