Terms Used In Alabama Code 36-17-14

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

Whenever it shall be made to appear to the Governor, auditor and Treasurer, by clear and satisfactory evidence, that any duly registered bond of the State of Alabama, bearing interest, has been lost or destroyed so that the same is not held by any person as his property, they shall issue a duplicate of such registered bond, in like amount, bearing like interest and executed and marked in like manner as the bond so proved to have been lost or destroyed. But the owner of such lost or destroyed bond shall first execute a penal bond in double the amount of such lost or destroyed bond and the interest which would thereafter accrue thereon, with two good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Governor, payable to the State of Alabama, with condition to indemnify and save harmless the state from any claim because of such lost or destroyed bond. Such penal bond shall be filed and kept in the office of the Treasurer, and a copy thereof, duly certified by the Treasurer, is admissible in evidence in any court.