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Terms Used In Alabama Code 43-2-723

  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

If none of the creditors attend at the time appointed or if, from any other cause, no appointment of such administrator is made, the court may, in its discretion, continue the former executor or administrator or may appoint any fit person, or the general administrator of the county or, should there be none, the sheriff of the county, to administer the estate according to the provisions of this division.