In Alabama the owner or keeper of the dog is liable for any damage to person or property caused by a dog bite, provided that his or her dog bit the victim on the property of the dog owner, or that the dog chased the victim off the owner's property. The victim had to be on the owner's property for a lawful purpose. Overview Alabama has a unique dog bite law. The victim had to have lawfully been on the dog owner's property, and had to either have been bitten there, or chased from there and then bitten. Alabama jury instructions Jury instructions always provide a simple statement of the applicable law.
Trial attorneys know, in fact, that jury instructions are , for all intents and purposes, the law.
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