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Terms Used In Alabama Code 45-48-83

  • circuit: means judicial circuit. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • juries: include courts or judges in all cases when a jury trial is waived, or when the court or judge is authorized to ascertain and determine the facts as well as the law. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Probate: Proving a will

At anytime the Guntersville Courthouse in Marshall County is damaged, destroyed, or is undergoing repair, renovation, or enlargement so as to interfere with the sittings of the district and circuit courts therein, in the discretion of the judge presiding over the respective courts, such courts may sit, assemble, qualify juries, and carry on any and all business and proceedings at any appropriate place of assembly, after reasonable notice thereof, and, in such event, no objection, motion, or plea shall be well taken that any case, civil, criminal, or probate, is to be tried, is being tried, or has been tried, at such designated location.