Terms Used In Alabama Code 6-10-30

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

The contest of any claim of exemptions shall be a preferred case, and after the return of the process, if both parties appear, an issue or issues shall be formed under the direction of the court as to whether the property in contest, or any and what part of it, is exempt as claimed. Such issue or issues shall be tried as other cases are tried. In all cases, the party in whose favor the levy was made shall be deemed the plaintiff, upon whom shall rest the burden of proof, and both parties shall be entitled to the same right of objection, exception, and of appeal as in other cases.

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