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Terms Used In Alabama Code 12-20-22

  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.

The original pleadings, motions or other papers in civil actions, the original process issued thereon and all affidavits and bonds taken in a court may be used and, if so used, shall stand as the final record. If said original pleadings, motions or other papers, process, affidavits or bonds should be lost, mislaid, destroyed or mutilated, a copy of such shall stand in the place and have the force and effect of the original.