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Terms Used In Alabama Code 40-10-11

  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • following: means next after. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • year: means a calendar year; but, whenever the word "year" is used in reference to any appropriations for the payment of money out of the treasury, it shall mean fiscal year. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

If service of such notice is perfected 10 days before the commencement of the term to which the same is returnable, the cause shall stand for trial at such term; and if no defense is interposed or if interposed and on trial thereof the same is adjudged insufficient in law or is not sustained by the evidence adduced, the probate court shall make and enter on such book or docket, a decree of sale substantially in the following form: “It appearing to the court that the taxes have been assessed against the person mentioned in this cause (or if the assessment is to owner unknown that the taxes have been assessed on real estate mentioned in this cause) to the amount of (state amount here) dollars for the year _________, and that the same are still due and unpaid or have been paid by the holder of a tax lien certificate, and it further appearing that notice of this proceeding has been given as required by law, and no valid defense has been interposed against the sale of such real estate for the payment of the taxes or the tax lien certificates, if applicable, it is therefore ordered, decreed and adjudged by the court that the State of Alabama and with respect to each tax lien certificate, the holder of such tax lien certificate, respectively, have a lien for the payment of said amount and for the additional sum of (state amount here) dollars, for fees, charges and costs in this behalf lawfully incurred, on the following described real estate: (Here insert description of real estate). It is further ordered, adjudged and decreed by the court that said real estate or so much thereof as may be necessary be sold for the payment of said delinquent taxes or tax lien certificates and of said fees, charges and costs, and of the expenses of such sale.” Such decree when entered shall be signed by the judge of probate and shall have, when the jurisdiction of the court is shown, the effect of judgments in other cases in courts of record.