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Terms Used In Alabama Code 11-88-74

  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • 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
  • property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

An appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court of Alabama by any person interested in the said property from the judgment entered by the said court within 42 days upon giving bond for costs of appeal or, if a stay of execution is desired, upon giving further bond in such sum as the judge of the said court may prescribe, payable to the authority, with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the judge of the said court, conditioned to pay such judgment or perform such judgment as the Supreme Court may render in the premises and all such costs and damages as the authority may have sustained if the judgment is affirmed.