Ala. Code § 45-34-80.40: Case Action Summaries; Minute Books.

(a) That in the Twentieth 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 case action summaries and that there shall be a case action summary for each case docketed in such courts properly identified by the style of the case and a case number.

(b) That after all orders and judgments have been made and entered, in any case, by the circuit judge or judges sitting in and for such circuit, the clerk of the circuit court of such circuit shall file a copy of such sheets in numerical order in well bound books labeled minute books and such judgments or orders shall have the same force and effect as minutes of the circuit court of the circuit court prior to the passage and approval of this section.