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Terms Used In Alabama Code 12-19-51

  • 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.
  • circuit: means judicial circuit. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.

If an appeal to the circuit court is taken in a civil case, the clerk in making records available to the circuit court shall submit a cost bill from the district court and the final assessment of cost will be made in the circuit court.

The appellant shall pay the circuit court docket fee and all unpaid court costs from both district court and circuit court will be assessed as costs on final judgment.