Terms Used In Alabama Code 35-3-22

  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts

If no objection is made to the making of such survey, or the court is of the opinion that such objection as made is not well taken and that such survey is pertinent and material to the determining of the issues in said action, or to enable the court to properly enter a judgment in said action, and that such survey is advisable, the court may enter an order providing for such survey and appointing a competent and disinterested surveyor or surveyors to make the same and fixing the manner in which the cost of such survey is to be paid, and the court may include in such order such additional conditions, terms, and provisions as are proper and equitable.