Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 6-6-12 (2026)
Award - Proceedings When Not Performed; Force and Effect.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
If the award is not performed in 10 days after notice and delivery of a copy thereof, the successful party may, if an action is pending, cause the award and the file of papers in the case to be returned to the court in which the action is pending or, if no action is pending, cause the submission and award to be returned to the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the award is made. Such award has the force and effect of a judgment, upon which execution may issue as in other cases.
(Code 1852, §2714; Code 1867, §3153; Code 1876, §3541; Code 1886, §3226; Code 1896, §513; Code 1907, §2913; Code 1923, §6161; Code 1940, T. 7, §834.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 8
cases, 1981–2017 · leading case: Credigy Receivable, Inc. v. Day, 3 So. 3d 206 (Ala. Civ. App. 2008).
Credigy Receivable, Inc. v. Day, 3 So. 3d 206 (Ala. Civ. App. 2008). “In the amended complaint, Credigy cited Ala.Code 1975, § 6-6-12, a part of the Alabama Arbitration Act, Ala.”
Honea v. Raymond James Fin. Servs., Inc., 240 So. 3d 550 (Ala. 2017). “In that case, a party sought to confirm an arbitration award under what is now Ala. Code 1975, § 6-6-12. The opposing parties filed pleas in abatement, which were overruled.”
Tuscaloosa Chevrolet, Inc. v. Guyton, 41 So. 3d 95 (Ala. Civ. App. 2009). “2008), argues that, because Tuscaloosa Chevrolet had invoked the jurisdiction of the trial court by seeking to enforce the arbitrator's award pursuant to § 6-6-12, she was not required to file a notice of appeal in accordance with § 6-6-15 as a prerequisite to obtaining judicial…”
Ex Parte Alabama Oxygen Co., Inc., 433 So. 2d 1158 (Ala. 1983). “Alabama encourages arbitration by statutorily providing that an arbitrator's decision has the same effect as a state court jury verdict, § 6-6-12, Code 1975, but does not allow specific enforcement of agreements to arbitrate future disputes.”
McKee v. Hendrix, 816 So. 2d 30 (Ala. Civ. App. 2001). “See §§ 6-6-12 and 6-6-15, Ala.Code 1975. The record indicates that on July 27, 2000, the defendants filed a response to the Hendrixes' motion and, in that response, moved the court to vacate certain portions of the arbitrator's award and moved for a "postponement of confirmation…”
Herring-malbis I, LLC v. Temco, Inc., 37 So. 3d 158 (Ala. Civ. App. 2009). “” When returned to an Alabama circuit court of competent jurisdiction, an arbitration award has “the force and effect of a judgment,” Ala.Code 1975, § 6-6-12, and becomes a judgment “upon which execution may issue as in other cases,” Moss v.”
Opinion of the Clerk, 394 So. 2d 954 (Ala. 1981). “Castle cites two sections of the Code of 1975 which read as follows: § 6-6-12. Award — Proceedings when not performed; force and effect.”
Progressive Specialty Ins. v. Wilkerson, 17 So. 3d 1195 (Ala. Civ. App. 2008). “Code 1975, the arbitration award was “conclusive between the parties thereto,” § 6-6-14, and had “the force and effect of a judgment, upon which execution may issue as in other cases,” § 6-6-12. Wilkerson may have had a colorable claim, in a dispute with State Farm, that she was…”
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