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Terms Used In Alabama Code 43-2-720

  • 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
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • 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

On the day appointed for the settlement of the administration of an estate declared insolvent or on any day to which the same is continued, the creditors present or represented may nominate to the court any fit person, an inhabitant of this state, as administrator of the property, rights and credits of such estate unadministered.