§ 45-49-80-01

(a) In the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama, all orders and decrees may be made and entered by circuit judges sitting in and for the circuit on a sheet or sheets now commonly called trial sheets or case action summary sheets. There shall be a trial sheet or case action summary sheet or sheets for each case docketed in such courts properly identified by the style of the case and a case number.(b) After all orders and decrees have been made and entered, in any case, by the circuit judge or judges sitting in and for the circuit, the clerk of the circuit court of the circuit shall file such sheets or copies thereof in numerical order in well bound books labeled minute books and the judgments or decrees shall have the same force and effect as minutes of the circuit court of the circuit before January 1, 1982. (Act 85-704, p. 1158, §§ 1, 2.)