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Terms Used In Alabama Code 23-1-131

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

In establishing a private road, the same rules must be observed and the same proceedings had as in the case of public roads; but no road must be opened through any person‘s yard, garden, orchard, garage, stable, lot, ginhouse, or curtilage without his consent, and the applicant must pay the owner of the land over which such road passes all damages resulting thereto from the establishment of such road, to be assessed as in case of public roads.