Terms Used In Alabama Code 6-5-90

  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.

Any person or his personal representatives may commence an action against the executor or administrator of any testator or intestate who in his lifetime has wasted, destroyed, taken, carried away, or converted to his own use the goods or chattels of any such person or committed any trespass on the real estate of such person.