The party in whose favor a judgment is entered, whether for debt, damages or costs, for the satisfaction thereof, may, within 10 years thereafter, have a writ of execution against the lands and goods of the party against whom such judgment is entered. When the judgment is for specific property or the alternate value, or for the possession of lands, appropriate writs of execution may issue for the satisfaction thereof. Such writs of execution must substantially conform to the following forms:

The State of Alabama,

_______ County.

To any Sheriff of the State of Alabama:

You are hereby commanded that of the goods and chattels, lands, and tenements of _____, you cause to be made the sum of _____ dollars, which _____ recovered of him on the _____ day of _____, 19__, by the judgment of the circuit (or district) court, held for the County of _____, besides _____ dollars, costs of the action; and have the same to render to the said _____; and make return of this writ and the execution thereof according to law.

Witness my hand, this _____ day of _____, 19__.

The State of Alabama,

_______ County.

To any Sheriff of the State of Alabama:

You are hereby commanded to deliver to _____, possession of the lands and tenements which the said _____ recovered of _____ by the judgment of our circuit (or district) court, held for the County of _____ on the _____ day of _____, 19__, viz.: (Describe the land recovered). You are further commanded of the goods and chattels, lands, and tenements of the said _____, you cause to be made the sum of _____ dollars damages adjudged to the said _____, and also the further sum of _____ dollars, costs of the action; and make return of this writ and the execution thereof according to law.

Witness my hand, this _____ day of _____, 19__.

The State of Alabama,

_______ County.

To any Sheriff of the State of Alabama:

You are hereby commanded to seize and deliver to _____ the following personal property, viz.: (Describe the property recovered), which the said _____, on the _____ day of _____, 19__, by judgment of our circuit (or district) court, held for the County of _____, recovered of _____, if the same can be had; if not, you are hereby commanded that of the goods and chattels, land, and tenements of the said _____, you cause to be made the sum of _____ dollars, the alternate value of the personal property, viz.: (Set out the assessed value of each item of personal property). Also the further sum of _____ dollars for the detention of said property by the said _____, besides _____ dollars, costs of the action; and make return of this writ and the execution thereof according to law.

Witness my hand, this _____ day of _____, 19__.

When land is sold under execution, a description of the land and the price obtained for it must be endorsed upon, or appended to, the writ by the officer making such sale.

When money is collected on an execution, the officer collecting it must endorse thereon, or append thereto, the amount collected, specifying the judgment, interest thereon and costs, with his own commissions, and sign his name thereto; and he must also, if required, receipt in like manner to the defendant.

When goods levied on remain in the hands of the officer unsold, it is his duty to make return of the fact; and, thereupon, the clerk must issue a writ for the sale thereof in substance as follows:

The State of Alabama,

_____ County.

To the Sheriff of said County:

You are hereby commanded to sell those goods and chattels of _____, which you have taken pursuant to our command, and which, according to your return, remain in your hands unsold, to satisfy _____ the sum of _____ dollars, recovered by him of the said _____ by the judgment of our circuit (or district) court, held for the County of _____ on the _____ day of _____, 19__, and _____ dollars, cost of the action; and make return of this writ and execution thereof according to law.

Witness my hand, this _____ day of _____, 19__.

(a) When the officer taking property under execution shall die before the sale thereof, a writ of venditioni exponas shall issue directed to the proper officer of the county in which the property was taken, and such officer shall, under the writ of venditioni exponas, receive the property from the representatives of the former sheriff or other officer, who are required to deliver the same to the officer having the venditioni exponas, on his producing the same and executing a receipt for the property, and the officer shall proceed to sell the same as in other cases.

(b) If the representatives of the deceased officer shall refuse or neglect to deliver the property or if there shall not be an executor or administrator of his estate, the officer having the writ of venditioni exponas may seize the property taken by the former officer, wherever it may be found, and sell the same as in other cases, or the plaintiff may move for summary judgment in the court from which the execution issued against the representative of the deceased officer and his sureties; and, thereupon, a judgment shall be entered against the representatives of the deceased officer and his sureties for the amount of the execution which came to the hands of such deceased officer, with interest and costs.

A sale regularly made by virtue of judicial process issuing from a court of competent jurisdiction shall convey the title as effectually as if the sale was made by the person against whom the process issues.

No note or memorandum in writing shall be necessary to charge any person at a judicial, execution or attachment sale other than the return of the officer on the process.

The purchaser must look for himself as to the title and soundness of all property sold under judicial process. Actual fraud or misrepresentation by the officer or his agent may bind him personally. No covenant of warranty binds him individually unless made with that intention for a valuable consideration and in writing.

(a) Any person who may become the purchaser of any real or personal estate at any sale which may be made at public outcry by an executor, administrator or guardian or by any sheriff or other officer under and by virtue of any execution or other legal process and who shall fail or refuse to comply with the terms of such sale when requested so to do shall be liable for the amount of such purchase money, and it shall be at the option of such sheriff or other officer either to proceed against such purchaser for the full amount of the purchase money or to resell such real or personal estate and then proceed against the first purchaser for the deficiency arising from such sale.

(b) The action provided for in subsection (a) of this section may be commenced in the name of the sheriff or other officer making the sale for the use of the plaintiff or defendant in execution or for any other person in interest, as the case may be.

The purchaser of any stock, share, interest, or judgment of the defendant, sold under execution or attachment, shall become the owner thereof in the same manner as if it had been regularly assigned to him by the defendant.

The purchaser at judicial sale may enforce any covenants of warranty running with the land which may be incorporated in the previous title deeds.

A purchaser at a void or irregular judicial sale under foreclosure of a mortgage succeeds to all of the interests of the mortgagee.

Courts have full power over their officers making execution or judicial sales, and whenever satisfied that a sale made under any legal process is infected with fraud, oppression, irregularity, or error to the injury of either party, the sale will be set aside.

Where property is sold under void process and the proceeds are applied to valid liens against the defendant, or he receives the benefit thereof, he is bound thereby if present and not objecting to the sale.

When real estate or any interest therein has been sold by any sheriff, he shall, upon compliance by the purchaser with the terms of sale and the payment or tender of the fees for executing the deed therefor, execute a deed for such real estate or interest therein sold and deliver the same to the purchaser within five days after such sale.

When any sheriff authorized by law to sell real estate makes such sale and dies or vacates his office before making a conveyance to the purchaser thereof, the court from which the writ issued, upon proof of the sale and of the payment of the purchase money, may order the successor in office of the sheriff making such sale to make a conveyance of such lands to the purchaser, and such conveyance shall relate back to the date of the sale. If the purchaser is the plaintiff in the judgment, proof that he has credited, or the fact that he does credit, on the record the defendant with the amount of the purchase money, less the necessary expenses and costs, is equivalent to proof of payment of the purchase money.

(a) When personal property is levied on by the sheriff, if the defendant executes bond with sufficient surety in double the amount of the execution payable to the plaintiff and conditioned to deliver the property levied on to the proper officer by 12:00 noon of the day and at the place appointed for the sale thereof, the sheriff must restore the property to the defendant.

(b) If the property is not delivered according to the condition of the bond, the sheriff must return it forfeited within five days thereafter to the register or clerk's office out of which the execution issued, endorsing thereon a forfeiture of the bond; and it is then the duty of the clerk or register, without delay, to issue execution on the forfeited bond against all the obligors therein for the judgment and costs, upon which no security of any kind can be taken, which he must endorse on the writ.

(c) Subsections (a) and (b) of this section do not apply to executions issued on judgments against sheriff, coroner or other officers of court against whom judgment is obtained for failing to pay over money collected by or paid to them in their official capacity, and the clerk or register must endorse on all such executions, 'No security of any kind to be taken.'

When property is restored to the defendant on the execution of a forthcoming bond and the same dies or is destroyed before the day for the delivery thereof without fault on his part, the obligors in the bond may tender the value thereof to the plaintiff, his agent or attorney, and if such tender is refused, the obligors in such bond may, on petition to the judge of the circuit court, supersede the same.

If the motion or application is to enter satisfaction of a judgment under the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure or to set aside the entry of satisfaction of a judgment, on request of either party, the issue of fact must be tried by a jury.

A judgment cannot be revived after the lapse of 20 years from its entry.

If 10 years have elapsed from the entry of the judgment without issue of execution or if 10 years have elapsed since the date of the last execution issued, the judgment must be presumed satisfied, and the burden of proving it not satisfied is upon the plaintiff.

No execution shall issue on a judgment of the district or circuit court on which an execution has not been sued out within 10 years of its entry until the same has been revived by appropriate motion or action under the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure.

When a plaintiff dies after the entry of a judgment in his favor and such judgment is unsatisfied, execution may issue thereon in favor of the personal representative of such deceased plaintiff, and in like manner when a judgment is entered in favor of an executor, administrator, guardian or trustee who dies, resigns, is removed, or whose authority ceases from any cause, execution may issue in favor of the successor without a revival.

When the plaintiff in any judgment dies, the same may be revived in favor of the personal representative of the plaintiff.

The death of one or more of several plaintiffs in a judgment shall not prevent the issuance of execution in favor of the survivors.

(a) When the transfer is made by any agent or attorney, the authority of the agent or the power of attorney shall be in writing duly acknowledged and recorded in the office of the probate judge and referred to in such transfer by noting the book and page where recorded. After such transfer, the original plaintiff shall have no further authority or control over such judgment.

(b) If an assignment of a judgment is made or endorsed on the execution docket or on the margin of the record of the judgment and is attested by the clerk, register or judge of probate, the assignee may have execution thereon in the name of the plaintiff for the use of the assignee, whether the plaintiff is living or dead.

(c) In all cases where a transfer of a judgment of a court in this state is made or endorsed on the execution docket or on the margin of the record of the judgment in the court where entered or in the office of the probate judge where a certificate of the judgment is recorded and which transfer is attested by the clerk, register or judge of probate, the assignee of such judgment in addition to the rights conferred upon him by subsection (b) of this section may maintain any action thereon or proceeding to revive in his own name that the plaintiff in said judgment could maintain if such transfer had not been made, whether the plaintiff is living or dead.

(d) The assignee of a judgment, if the assignment is in writing, may have the same revived in his name by appropriate action or motion under the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure.

The surety paying off such judgment or execution shall have control thereof and the same right to enforce it as the plaintiff would have had, but for the payment.

The judge of any court may frame, or cause to be issued by the clerk or register, any writ of execution or process necessary to carry into effect any lawful judgment entered in his court.

Within 90 days from the entry of a judgment, the clerk or register must issue execution thereon in favor of the successful party unless otherwise directed by the court or the judge presiding at the trial of the case or by the written direction of owner of the judgment or his attorney of record. The writ must be signed by the clerk or register, and tested on the day it is issued.

The owner of any judgment entered in any court of this state or of the United States held in this state may file in the office of the judge of probate of any county of this state a certificate of the clerk or register of the court by which the judgment was entered, which certificate shall show the style of the court which entered the judgment, the amount and date thereof, the amount of costs, the names of all parties thereto and the name of the plaintiff's attorney and shall be registered by the judge of probate in a book to be kept by him for that purpose, which said register shall also show the date of the filing of the judgment. Said judge shall make a proper index to said book, which shall also show under the proper letter or letters of the alphabet the names of each and every defendant to said judgment, and such judgments shall be recorded in chronological order of the filing of such judgments. Such certificate shall also show the address of each defendant or respondent, as shown in the court proceedings.

Every judgment, a certificate of which has been filed as provided in Section 6-9-210, shall be a lien in the county where filed on all property of the defendant which is subject to levy and sale under execution, and such lien shall continue for 10 years after the date of such judgment; provided, that when an action or other proceeding to enforce or foreclose said lien is instituted or begun within said 10 years, but has not been completed, decided, or determined within said 10-year period, and at the time said action or proceeding is instituted or begun, or lien claimed therein, a lis pendens notice thereof is filed in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which said property is situated, the lien provided for in this section shall continue as to the property upon which said lien is claimed in said action or proceeding and may be enforced or foreclosed in that action as if said 10-year period had not elapsed. No insolvency proceedings or declaration of insolvency shall affect or impair such lien, except bankruptcy proceedings instituted within four months after the filing of the certificate of judgment for record as provided by law. The filing of said certificate of judgment, as provided in Section 6-9-210, shall be notice to all persons of the existence of the lien thereby created.

Any judge of probate who shall fail to make the registration or index required by Section 6-9-210 shall be liable to a penalty of $200, for the use of any party aggrieved, besides all damages sustained by such party.

Upon the entry of judgment, execution may be issued by leave of the court before the time prescribed in the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure for the issuing of executions, the plaintiff, his agent, or attorney showing sufficient cause therefor by affidavit; but the defendant is not prevented thereby from moving for a new trial nor deprived of any right he would otherwise have had.

After the entry of judgment and before the expiration of the time limited by the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure, on affidavit being made and filed that the defendant is about fraudulently to dispose of or remove his property and that thereby the plaintiff will probably lose his debt, the clerk or register must issue execution against the property of the defendant.

This article may be cited as the 'Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act.'

As used in this article, the term 'foreign judgment' shall mean any judgment, decree, or order of a court of the United States or of any other court which is entitled to full faith and credit in this state.

A copy of any foreign judgment authenticated in accordance with an act of Congress or the statutes of this state may be filed in the office of the clerk of any circuit court of this state. A clerk of any circuit court shall note the filing in a special docket set up for foreign judgments. A judgment so filed has the same effect and is subject to the same procedures, defenses and proceedings for reopening, vacating, or staying as a judgment of a circuit court of this state and may be enforced or satisfied in like manner; provided, however, that any proceeding that is brought to enforce support obligations of other jurisdictions in this state by the withholding of income derived in this state shall be brought in accordance with Chapter 3A, commencing with Section 30-3A-101, of Title 30.

(a) At the time of filing, the judgment creditor, or his lawyer, shall make and file with the clerk of the circuit court an affidavit setting forth the name and last known post office address of the judgment debtor, and the judgment creditor. In addition, such affidavit shall include a statement that the foreign judgment is valid, enforceable, and unsatisfied.

(b) Promptly upon the filing of the foreign judgment and the affidavit, the clerk shall mail notice of the filing of the foreign judgment to the judgment debtor at the address given and shall make a note of the mailing in the special docket. The notice shall include the name and post office address of the judgment creditor and the judgment creditor's lawyer, if any, in this state. In addition, the judgment creditor may mail notice of the filing of the judgment to the judgment debtor and may file proof of mailing with the clerk. Lack of mailing notice of filing by the clerk shall not affect the enforcement proceedings if proof of mailing by the judgment creditor has been filed.

(c) No execution or other process for enforcement of a foreign judgment filed hereunder shall issue until 30 days after the date the judgment is filed.

(a) If the judgment debtor shows the circuit court that an appeal from the foreign judgment is pending or will be taken, or that a stay of execution has been granted, the court shall stay enforcement of the foreign judgment until the appeal is concluded, the time for appeal expires, or the stay of execution expires or is vacated, upon proof that the judgment debtor has furnished the security for the satisfaction of the judgment required by the state in which it was rendered.

(b) If the judgment debtor shows the circuit court any ground upon which enforcement of a judgment of any circuit court of this state would be stayed, the court shall stay enforcement of the foreign judgment for an appropriate period, upon requiring the same security for satisfaction of the judgment which is required in this state.

Any person filing a foreign judgment shall pay to the clerk of the circuit court an amount equal to that imposed for the filing of a civil action. Fees for docketing, transcription, or other enforcement proceedings shall be as provided for judgments of the circuit courts of this state.

The right of a judgment creditor to bring an action to enforce his judgment instead of proceeding under this article remains unimpaired.

A copy of a foreign judgment authenticated in the manner described in Section 6-9-232 and filed in the circuit court may be recorded in the probate office as provided for judgments of the circuit courts of this state, and its being so filed shall have the same force and effect as the filing of a certificate of a judgment obtained in a circuit court of this state.

This article shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the laws of those states which enact it.

(a) More than one writ of execution may be issued at the plaintiff's cost, though the first be not returned; and when a writ of execution is returned not satisfied, or satisfied only in part, an alias writ of execution may be issued.

(b) When a judgment has been satisfied in part and an alias execution is issued, the clerk or register must endorse thereon the amount which had been previously made with the date of its collection or payment.

When the office of sheriff is vacant and until his successor qualifies, when the sheriff is imprisoned, in cases to which he is a party, in cases in which he is interested or for any legal cause is incompetent to act, if such interest or cause appears on the face of the proceedings, the execution must be directed to, and executed by, the coroner or special coroner, as the case may be.

At the foot, or on some part, of the execution, the clerk or register of such court shall certify the total amount of court costs and fees to accompany execution, but otherwise, such court costs and fees need not be itemized in, or on, executions. Without such total amount of the costs and fees being placed upon said execution, the clerk or register issuing the execution forfeits all rights to receive any costs and fees in that case.

When execution against the defendant is returned 'no property found,' execution may issue against the plaintiff, in the name of the clerk or the register of the court, for all the costs created by him in obtaining his judgment.

Executions may be levied:

(1) On real property to which the defendant has a legal title or a perfect equity, having paid the purchase money, or in which he has a vested legal interest in possession, reversion, or remainder, whether he has the entire estate or is entitled to it in common with others.

(2) On personal property of the defendant, except things in action, whether he has the absolute title thereto or the right only to the possession thereof for his own life, the life of another or any shorter period, but this does not apply to a possession acquired by a bona fide hiring of chattels.

(3) On an equity of redemption in either land or personal property. When any interest less than the absolute title is sold, the purchaser is subrogated to all the rights of the defendant and subject to all his disabilities.

No execution or other legal process must be levied upon a growing or ungathered crop of any description except for the purpose of enforcing liens upon such crop for rent, advances, or labor as prescribed by law.

A writ of execution is a lien only within the county in which it is received by the officer authorized to execute it on the lands of the defendant in such county subject to levy and sale from the time the writ is levied by him and notice of levy as provided in Section 35-4-132 is filed for record with the judge of probate of such county. Such writ is a lien upon the personal property of the defendant subject to levy and sale from the time only that the writ is levied upon such personal property.

The execution of a bond for an appeal by which the judgment is suspended or the execution of a bond by the defendant upon the proper officer granting an injunction, stay of execution or restraining order destroys the lien created by the recording of the certificate of the judgment or the levy of the execution upon personal property. The clerk of the court in which such bond, injunction, stay, or restraining order is granted shall, at the request of the party filing such bond or obtaining such order, note such fact on the margin of the record where the certificate of judgment is recorded in the event such certificate has been filed in the probate office.

A writ of execution issued and received by the sheriff during the life of the defendant may be levied after his death or an alias issued and levied within 10 years from the date of the judgment if at the time of his death there was of record, in the county where the property is, a certificate of the judgment on which the execution issued.

After six months from the date of the grant of letters testamentary or of administration on the estate of any defendant, in a judgment for money, execution thereof may be had by leave of the court entering the judgment, or of the judge thereof, upon cause shown, against any property on which said judgment was a lien at the time of the death of the defendant, and a sale of such property may be made in the same manner and with the same effect as if the defendant were living. In case of the death of the defendant in a judgment for the recovery of real or personal property, execution may be had without revival in the same manner as if the defendant had not died.

The sheriff or other officer receiving an execution must execute the writ with diligence and, if practicable, perform the mandate thereof and make return of his acts to the clerk or register, as soon as practicable and not later than 90 days from the date of the execution.

(a) When a reasonable doubt exists whether the personal property levied on belongs to the defendant or whether personal property alleged to be his is subject to levy and sale, the sheriff may require of the plaintiff, his agent or attorney a bond of indemnity, and if it is not given within 10 days thereafter, he may restore the property to the defendant, if levied on, or decline to levy, if one has not been made; but he may be required to levy and sell at any time thereafter on being indemnified.

(b) If any party having the prior lien refuses to give such indemnity on demand of the sheriff, the party having the next lien in order may give it and have the property sold for his benefit.

When the levy is on real estate, personal notice thereof must be given to the defendant or a notice thereof in writing left at his residence, if resident in the county; if not resident in the county, then by putting up a written notice at the courthouse door, and the manner of giving notice must be stated in the return.

When execution issues against two or more persons, any of whom were sureties on the contract before the judgment, the sheriff must levy on the property of the principal first, if any can be found in the county, on the application of such surety; and he may require of the surety affidavit of the fact of suretyship, which he must file with the execution.

When property is subject to a lien and part of it is sold by the debtor, the part remaining in him should be first applied to the payment of the lien. If the property subject to such lien is sold in several parcels at different times, the parcels should be charged in the inverse order of their alienation.

When a defendant in execution shall own, or be entitled to, an undivided interest in any property not exclusively in his own possession, such interest may be levied on and sold by the sheriff without taking the property into actual possession, and such sale shall vest in the purchaser all the interest of the defendant in such property.

Lands, when levied on under execution from any court of record, must be sold on any Monday in the month at the courthouse of the county. Other property may be sold on any day, except Sunday, either at the courthouse, the residence of the defendant, the place where levied on, or the neighborhood thereof, as may be most expedient. The sale may be continued from day to day if rendered necessary by the inclemency of the weather or from inability to conclude the sale in one day.

In sales of personal property, notice must be given by advertisement at the courthouse door and also by publication in a newspaper, if one is published in the county, for 10 days previous to such sale, but only one insertion in such newspaper shall be necessary. In sales of real property, the publication in such newspaper must be once a week for three successive weeks and by posting up notice for 30 days at the courthouse door previous to the sale.

When goods and chattels are levied on which in their nature are perishable and in danger of immediate waste or decay, the officer levying shall sell them at such time, on such notice and at such place as a sound discretion may warrant, being liable for an abuse of his discretion to any party injured.

When strawberries are levied on or seized under any writ of detinue, writ of attachment, or writ of execution, the sheriff or constable making the levy or seizure shall, unless a replevy bond or forthcoming bond is immediately executed by the defendant, proceed forthwith to sell the strawberries so levied on or seized either at public or private sale, as he may deem best, and the proceeds of such sale shall be by such officer paid into the court out of which said writ was issued and shall be held by such court pending the final disposition of the case.

When a defendant in execution shall point out any of his property on which to levy the execution, the sheriff or other officer shall be bound to take and sell that first if the same is, in the opinion of such levying officer, sufficient to satisfy such judgment and costs.

The debtor has the right, on the day of the sale, to substitute other property of equal value, not covered by any lien, in lieu of that levied on, which fact, and a description of the property substituted, must be endorsed on, or appended to, the execution, and the substituted property be sold in lieu of that levied on.

When the money, or any part thereof, has been made on an execution, the officer must give the plaintiff, his agent or attorney personal notice thereof within 10 days thereafter, if resident in the county; if not resident in the county and he knows the residence of them, or either of them, such notice may be sent by mail through the postal service.

When, at an execution sale, the amount of the sale exceeds the judgment, interest and costs, the excess must be paid to the debtor or his legal representative. When money is paid or collected on an execution, the whole or any part of which is enjoined, the same must, on demand, be refunded to the debtor or his legal representative if it has been paid over to the plaintiff, his agent or attorney without notice of the injunction.

The death of any plaintiff or defendant after the issuance or the levy of an execution on personal or real estate shall not affect the duty of the officer making the levy to proceed and sell as if such death had not occurred.

When livestock is levied on and remains in the hands of the officer for sale, he or she must provide sustenance therefor, and it is his or her duty to hire out or employ the equine or equidae or other stock, if practicable, for their support. If unable to do so, he or she must be allowed by the court a reasonable compensation for their support, which he or she may retain from the proceeds of the sale.

If the writ is not executed or only executed in part, the reason why it is not executed or only executed in part must be stated in the return.

The return of an execution or other process by a sheriff of a county other than that from which the process issued may be made through the postal service, and the certificate of the postmaster that it was placed in his office in time, by the usual course of mail, to reach the courthouse of the county where the return has to be made, by the return day of the writ, shall be presumptive evidence for the sheriff of the fact, but the sheriff is not authorized to send money by the mail without the consent of the plaintiff in execution.

The sheriff or other officer receiving an execution must endorse thereon the day, month and year of its receipt, and when more than one execution against the same defendant comes to his hands on the same day, if not received at the same time, he must endorse thereon the order in which they are received.

When a levy is made on real or personal property, a full description thereof, with the date of the levy, must be endorsed upon or appended to the execution.