Terms Used In Alabama Code 6-6-621

  • 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.
  • circuit: means judicial circuit. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.

When an order appointing a receiver is made by the register or clerk, it shall be subject to appeal to the circuit judge, which may be heard at any time. Such order must be suspended whenever the appellant enters into bond with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the register or clerk, in such sum as he shall prescribe, payable to the appellee and conditioned to pay the appellee all such costs and damages as he may sustain in case the appeal is not prosecuted to effect.