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Terms Used In Alabama Code 43-2-151

  • circuit: means judicial circuit. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • Probate: Proving a will

When an execution against an executor or administrator, issued from the probate court on any judgment, order or decree for money is returned to any regular term of such court “no property” by the sheriff of the county, such judgment, order or decree may be enforced against the executor or administrator and his sureties, by execution or by process of garnishment, which may issue in like cases and manner as it may issue on judgment in circuit courts and may, in like manner, be prosecuted to judgment against the garnishee.