Terms Used In Alabama Code 6-6-604

  • 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.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • 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

If the defendant is adjudged guilty of usurping or intruding into, or unlawfully holding or exercising, any public office, civil or military, or any office in a corporation created by the authority of this state or unlawfully practicing any profession requiring a license, the appeal does not stay the execution of the judgment unless the party appealing shall execute bond, as prescribed in Rule 8 of the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure, payable to the State of Alabama.