Official opinions of the Attorney General of Alabama: Biennial from 1882/84 thru 1936/38, thereafter quarterly to date, np, state printer, 1884–. (Although there were territorial precedents, it was the statehood Constitution of 1819 that provided for the Office of Attorney General as part of the judiciary of Alabama. The Constitution of 1868 made the Attorney General an executive officer of the State. While a law of 1868 provided for periodic reports from the A.G. to the Governor, only in 1884 was the first printed report issued. Selected opinions accompanied the reports from the beginning. The reports and opinions were biennial through1836/38, but a law of 1935 required quarterly reporting for the opinions. Biennial publication of the reports was combined with these quarterly opinions publications until 1942, when publication of the reports ended, while the quarterly opinion reporting extends to date. The fact that in many of the states there were differing patterns of publication for the A.G reports and opinions makes for a confusing literature. To minimize confusion in its online offerings, LLMC has chosen to group all of the U.S. state attorney generals’ reports and opinions in two separate series for each state. For the Alabama A.G. Reports, see the separate Reports series elsewhere on this site.)
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