Terms Used In Alabama Code 12-22-3

  • 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.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

If a court of record ceases to exist by reason of the repeal of the statute creating it and, while existing, rendered a judgment or decree from which an appeal would lie, within the time prescribed by law, an appeal therefrom may be taken by filing a notice of appeal with the clerk or register of the court to which the unfinished business or the records of such inferior court may be transferred as if such judgment or decree had been rendered in the court having the jurisdiction of such unfinished business or the custody of such records. In the event of the reversal of such judgment or decree, the remandment of the case must be to the latter court.