Alabama Code 35-11-5. Affidavit and bond required before issue of attachment
Terms Used In Alabama Code 35-11-5
- Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
- property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
In all cases in this chapter where the process of attachment is authorized, and unless otherwise particularly provided for in the article declaring the lien, before such attachment shall issue, the plaintiff, his agent or attorney must make affidavit setting forth the amount of such claim, or if a toll is claimed, the reasonable value thereof, that one of the enumerated causes for attachment prescribed in the applicable article exists, that the attachment is not sued out for the purpose of vexing or harassing the defendant, whether or not the debt or toll is due, and if not, when the same will be due, that said debt or toll remains unpaid, and must describe therein, as near as practicable, the property on which the lien is claimed. He must also execute a bond in double the amount claimed, with sufficient sureties to be approved by the officer issuing the attachment, payable to the defendant and with the condition that the plaintiff will prosecute the attachment to effect and pay the defendant all such damages as he may sustain from the wrongful or vexatious suing out of such attachment.