Probate dockets and fee books, 1821-[ongoing].

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Probate dockets and fee books, 1821-[ongoing].

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The probate judge of each county is required to keep an up-to-date docket book in his office (see Ala. Code, 12-13-41 [1975]). The series records information about each case brought before the probate court. Each volume includes the date of the issue and return of all process (legal documents), the day set for the hearing, the kind of notice ordered, the returns of the sheriff, and other entries as may be necessary to show the status of all proceedings pending in the court. It also notes all fees accruing in the case and to whom they are due. This record began in 1821 and continues to the present.

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Alabama County (Ala.). Probate Judges.

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Authorities: Acts of Alabama, 1849-50. Code of Alabama, 1975, Vol. 2, Constitutional Amendment No. 328. Norman, Keith B., ed. Handbook for Alabama Probate Judges. 3rd ed. Atlanta: Darby Printing Co., 1982. A court of probate was established in each Alabama county in 1850. The act that created the probate court abolished the county court and the orphans' court and transferred most of the jurisdiction of the county court to the court of ...