§34-3-86. Causes of removal of attorney.  


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  • An attorney must be removed for the following causes by the circuit court:

    (1) Upon his or her being convicted of a felony other than manslaughter or of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, in either of which cases the record of his or her conviction is conclusive evidence.

    (2) When any judgment is rendered against him or her for money collected by him or her as attorney, upon which judgment an execution has issued and been returned no property, in which case the record of the judgment and execution is conclusive evidence.

(Code 1852, §747; Code 1867, §881; Code 1876, §799; Code 1886, §869; Code 1896, §595; Code 1907, §2991; Code 1923, §6256; Code 1940, T. 46, §49.)