The register and clerk shall each account to the other, periodically, for any fees or costs collected, which would have belonged to the office of the other under prior practice. Prevailing practice in many circuits on the law side is as follows. Each case is noted in an appearance docket and the civil docket book. All activity with respect to a particular case is noted in the civil docket. Not every act of the Court is the basis of a formal order.
Every final order is noted in the minute book, a diary of court action by days.
On the equity side, all orders of the Court are made the basis of a formal order which is retained in the Court file. In all other respects the record keeping is the same. This redraft of Rule 79 is intended to make no change in this system. The rule differs in important particulars from the corresponding federal rule, in order to preserve existing Alabama practices of a consolidated civil docket, and separate offices of the clerk and of the register. All activity is recorded in the civil docket.