Terms Used In Alabama Code 26-3-13

  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Probate: Proving a will

The judge of probate and the sureties on his or her official bond are liable to any person injured for any wanton, fraudulent, or intentional misconduct of the judge in not taking from a conservator a good and sufficient bond or for taking thereon insufficient surety or for wanton, fraudulent, or intentional misconduct in not requiring the execution of a new or additional bond in the cases in which such bond is required by law, if he or she knows or has good cause to believe that the case exists in which such new or additional bond should be required.