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AL Code § 35-10-94 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 10 - Mortgages.|Article 5 - Alabama Residential Mortgage Satisfaction Act.|Section 35-10-94 - Notification by Satisfaction Agent to Secured Creditor.

Section 35-10-94Notification by satisfaction agent to secured creditor. (a) If a secured creditor has not submitted for recording a satisfaction of a security instrument within the time set forth in Section 35-10-92 after full and complete payment of all indebtedness secured by the security instrument, a satisfaction agent acting for and with authority from the mortgagors may give the secured creditor a notification that the satisfaction agent intends to submit for recording an affidavit of satisfaction of the security instrument. The notification must include all of the following: (1) The identity and mailing address of the satisfaction agent. (2) Identification of the security instrument for which a recorded satisfaction is sought, including the names of the original parties to, and the recording data for, the security instrument. (3) A statement that the satisfaction agent has determined all of the following: a. That the real property described in the security instrument is residential real property or, at the time the security interest was made, was residential real property. b. That the person to which the notification is being given is the secured creditor. c. That the secured creditor has received full payment and performance of the secured obligation. (4) A statement that a satisfaction of the security instrument does not appear of record in the chain of title. (5) A statement that the satisfaction agent, acting with the authorization of the mortgagors of the real property described in the security instrument, intends to sign and submit for recording an affidavit of satisfaction of the security instrument unless, within 30 days after receipt of the notification by the secured creditor, any of the following occurs: a. The secured creditor submits a satisfaction of the security instrument for recording. b. The satisfaction agent receives from the secured creditor a notification stating that the secured obligation remains unsatisfied. c. The satisfaction agent receives from the secured creditor a notification stating that the secured creditor has assigned the security instrument or otherwise does not claim an interest in the security instrument. In this event, the satisfaction agent will use all reasonable efforts to determine the name and address of, and notify, the secured creditor then owning the securing instrument. (b) A notification to the secured creditor under subsection (a) must be sent by a method that provides proof of receipt by the secured creditor for giving a notification for the purpose of requesting a payoff statement or, if the satisfaction agent cannot ascertain that address, to the secured creditor's address for notification for any other purpose. (Act 2012-278, p. 554, §5.)
AL Code § 35-10-95 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 10 - Mortgages.|Article 5 - Alabama Residential Mortgage Satisfaction Act.|Section 35-10-95 - Conditions for Satisfaction Agent to Sign and Submit Affidavit for Recording.

Section 35-10-95Conditions for satisfaction agent to sign and submit affidavit for recording. (a) Subject to subsections (b) and (c), a satisfaction agent may sign and submit for recording an affidavit of satisfaction of a security instrument complying with this article if either of the following occurs: (1) There does not appear of record a satisfaction of a security instrument within 30 days after the receipt by the secured creditor of the notification. (2) The secured creditor authorizes the satisfaction agent to do so. (b) A satisfaction agent may not sign and submit for recording an affidavit of satisfaction of a security instrument if it has received a notification stating that the secured obligation remains unsatisfied or information that the security instrument has been assigned. (c) If a satisfaction agent receives information that the security instrument has been assigned, the satisfaction agent may not submit for recording an affidavit of satisfaction of the security instrument without giving a notification of intent to submit for recording an affidavit of satisfaction to the assignee. (Act 2012-278, p. 554, §6.)
AL Code § 35-10-96 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 10 - Mortgages.|Article 5 - Alabama Residential Mortgage Satisfaction Act.|Section 35-10-96 - Affidavit of Satisfaction Requirements.

Section 35-10-96Affidavit of satisfaction requirements. An affidavit of satisfaction of a security instrument must do all of the following: (1) Identify the original parties to the security instrument, the secured creditor, and the recording data for the security instrument. (2) State the basis upon which the person signing the affidavit is a satisfaction agent including, without limitation, that the person signing the affidavit is authorized to sign on behalf of, and to bind, the insurance company acting as satisfaction agent. (3) State that the person signing the affidavit has determined that the real property described in the security instrument is residential real property or was residential real property at the time the security instrument was made. (4) State that the person signing the affidavit determined that the secured creditor has received full payment or performance of the secured obligation and, if the security instrument is an equity line security instrument, that the equity line has been closed. (5) State that the person signing the affidavit, acting with the authority of the owner of the real property described in the security instrument, gave notification to the secured creditor of its intention to sign and submit for recording an affidavit of satisfaction. (6) Describe the method by which the person signing the affidavit gave notification in compliance with this article. (7) State either of the following: a. That more than 30 days have elapsed since the receipt of notification by the secured party, no satisfaction has been recorded, and the satisfaction agent has not received a notification that the secured obligation remains unsatisfied or received information that the secured obligation has been assigned. b. That the secured creditor authorized the person signing the affidavit to sign and record an affidavit of satisfaction. (8) Be sworn or affirmed, signed, and acknowledged as required by law for a conveyance of an interest in real property. (Act 2012-278, p. 554, §7.)
AL Code § 35-10-97 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 10 - Mortgages.|Article 5 - Alabama Residential Mortgage Satisfaction Act.|Section 35-10-97 - Effect of Recording Affidavit.

Section 35-10-97Effect of recording affidavit. (a) Upon recording, an affidavit complying with the requirements of this article constitutes a termination of the security interest described in the affidavit. (b) The recording of an affidavit of satisfaction of a security instrument does not extinguish, offset, or otherwise affect any responsibility or liability of a person for payment or performance of the debt or other obligation secured by the security instrument. (Act 2012-278, p. 554, §8.)
AL Code § 35-10-98 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 10 - Mortgages.|Article 5 - Alabama Residential Mortgage Satisfaction Act.|Section 35-10-98 - Liability.

Section 35-10-98Liability. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a satisfaction agent or any other person who executes an affidavit of satisfaction of a security instrument erroneously or as a result of negligence or non-compliance with this article is liable to the secured creditor for any actual economic damages caused by the recording of the satisfaction. (b) This article does not apply to the liability of a satisfaction agent who executes an affidavit of satisfaction of a security instrument erroneously as a result of wantonness, recklessness, or deliberate misconduct, nor does this article apply to the liability of a person other than a satisfaction agent who erroneously executes an affidavit of satisfaction. (Act 2012-278, p. 554, §9.)
AL Code § 35-11-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 11 - Liens.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-11-1 - Statutory Modes of Enforcement Not Exclusive.

Section 35-11-1Statutory modes of enforcement not exclusive. The statutory modes provided in this chapter for the enforcement of liens are not the exclusive modes of enforcing such liens, but are cumulative merely. Any lien may be enforced in the manner provided by statute, if so provided, or by attachment for enforcing liens, or by any similar mode or remedy existing at common law. (Code 1907, §4829; Code 1923, §8935; Code 1940, T. 33, §1.)
AL Code § 35-11-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 11 - Liens.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-11-2 - Rights of Inferior Lienors.

Section 35-11-2Rights of inferior lienors. One who has a lien inferior to another, upon the same property, has a right: (1) To redeem the property in the same manner as its owner might, from the superior lien; and (2) To be subrogated to all the benefits of the superior lien, when necessary for the protection of his interests, upon satisfying the claim secured thereby. (Code 1923, §8936; Code 1940, T. 33, §2.)
AL Code § 35-11-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 11 - Liens.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-11-3 - Right to Redeem; Subrogation.

Section 35-11-3Right to redeem; subrogation. Every person, having an interest in property subject to a lien, has a right to discharge the lien at any time after the claim is due, and before his right of redemption is foreclosed, and, by such redemption, becomes subrogated to all the benefits of the lien, as against all owners of other interests in the property, except insofar as he was bound to make such redemption for their benefit. (Code 1923, §8937; Code 1940, T. 33, §3.)
AL Code § 35-11-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 11 - Liens.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-11-4 - Order of Resort to Different Things.

Section 35-11-4Order of resort to different things. Where one has a lien upon different things, and other persons have subordinate liens upon, or interests in, some but not all of the same things, the person having the prior lien, if he can do so without risk of loss to himself, or of injustice to other persons, must resort to the property in the following order, on the written demand of any party interested: (1) To the things upon which he has an exclusive lien; (2) To the things which are subject to the fewest subordinate liens; (3) In like manner inversely to the number of subordinate liens upon the same thing; and (4) When several things are within one of the foregoing classes, and subject to the same number of liens, resort must be had: a. To the things which have not been transferred since the prior lien was created; b. To the things which have been so transferred without a valuable consideration; and c. To the things which have been so transferred for a valuable consideration in the inverse order of the transfer. (Code 1923, §8938; Code 1940, T. 33, §4.)
AL Code § 35-11-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 11 - Liens.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-11-5 - Affidavit and Bond Required Before Issue of Attachment.

Section 35-11-5Affidavit and bond required before issue of attachment. In all cases in this chapter where the process of attachment is authorized, and unless otherwise particularly provided for in the article declaring the lien, before such attachment shall issue, the plaintiff, his agent or attorney must make affidavit setting forth the amount of such claim, or if a toll is claimed, the reasonable value thereof, that one of the enumerated causes for attachment prescribed in the applicable article exists, that the attachment is not sued out for the purpose of vexing or harassing the defendant, whether or not the debt or toll is due, and if not, when the same will be due, that said debt or toll remains unpaid, and must describe therein, as near as practicable, the property on which the lien is claimed. He must also execute a bond in double the amount claimed, with sufficient sureties to be approved by the officer issuing the attachment, payable to the defendant and with the condition that the plaintiff will prosecute the attachment to effect and pay the defendant all such damages as he may sustain from the wrongful or vexatious suing out of such attachment. (Code 1940, T. 33, §5.)
AL Code § 35-11-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 11 - Liens.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-11-6 - Limitations; Trial of Cases of Attachment.

Section 35-11-6Limitations; trial of cases of attachment. All cases arising under the provisions of this chapter where the process of attachment is authorized for the enforcement of any lien declared hereby, except in cases of agisters or trainer liens and the lien declared to the owners of the stallions, jacks, bulls, etc., and, unless otherwise particularly provided for, must be commenced within six months after the demand becomes due; and unless commenced within that time, the lien is lost. All cases of attachment arising under the provisions of this chapter shall stand for trial at the time and shall be tried in the manner and upon the notice required in other attachment cases. (Code 1940, T. 33, §6.)
AL Code § 35-11-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 11 - Liens.|Article 2 - Liens for Stumpage.|Section 35-11-20 - Lien Declared.

Section 35-11-20Lien declared. Owners of land, or their assignees, shall have a lien upon timber sold therefrom for purposes of rafting, shipping, or manufacture, for the stipulated price or value thereof, commonly known as stumpage. (Code 1896, §2780; Code 1907, §4814; Code 1923, §8906; Code 1940, T. 33, §7.)
AL Code § 35-11-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 11 - Liens.|Article 2 - Liens for Stumpage.|Section 35-11-21 - Enforcement.

Section 35-11-21Enforcement. For the enforcement of such lien, the owners of such land or their assignees, may have process of attachment from any court having jurisdiction of the amount claimed leviable upon the timber upon which the lien exists: (1) When such claim is due and the defendant, on demand, fails or refuses to pay the same. (2) Whether such claim is due or not, when the defendant has removed any part of such timber from such land without paying the stipulated price, or the value thereof, when no price has been stipulated, and without the consent of the owners of such lands, or, if the claim has been assigned, without the consent of the assignee. (3) Whether such claim is due or not, when the plaintiff has good cause to believe that the defendant is about to remove any part of such timber from such land without paying the stipulated price thereof, or, in the event no price has been stipulated, the value thereof, and without the consent of the owners of such lands, or, if the claim has been assigned, without the consent of the assignee. (Code 1896, §2781; Code 1907, §4815; Code 1923, §8907; Code 1940, T. 33, §8.)
AL Code § 35-11-60 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 11 - Liens.|Article 4 - Liens on Watercraft.|Section 35-11-60 - Lien Declared.

Section 35-11-60Lien declared. A lien is hereby declared on any ship, steamboat, or other watercraft, whether registered, enrolled, or licensed or not, that may be built, repaired, fitted, furnished, supplied, or victualed within this state, for work done, or material supplied by any person within this state, in or about the building, repairing, fitting, furnishing, supplying, or victualing such ship, steamboat, or other watercraft, and for the wages of the masters, laborers, stevedores, and shipkeepers of such ship, steamboat, or other watercraft, in preference to other liens thereon for debts contracted by, or owing from, the owners thereof; and for wharfage and dockage; and such lien may be asserted in any court of competent jurisdiction. (Code 1876, §3465; Code 1886, §3054; Code 1896, §2758; Code 1907, §4790; Code 1923, §8870; Code 1940, T. 33, §12.)
AL Code § 35-12-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 12 - Lost or Unclaimed Property.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-12-1 - When Finder Becomes Depositary.

Section 35-12-1When finder becomes depositary. One who finds a thing lost is not bound to take charge of it; but if he does so he is thenceforward a depositary for the owner, with the rights and obligations of a depositary for hire. (Code 1923, §7992; Code 1940, T. 47, §155.)
AL Code § 35-12-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 12 - Lost or Unclaimed Property.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-12-2 - Proof of Ownership of Claimant.

Section 35-12-2Proof of ownership of claimant. The finder of a thing may in good faith, before giving it up, require reasonable proof of ownership from any person claiming it. (Code 1923, §7993; Code 1940, T. 47, §156.)
AL Code § 35-12-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 12 - Lost or Unclaimed Property.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-12-3 - Compensation and Reward for Finder.

Section 35-12-3Compensation and reward for finder. The finder of a thing is entitled to compensation for all expenses necessarily incurred by him in its preservation, and for any other service necessarily performed by him about it, and to a reasonable reward for keeping it. (Code 1923, §7994; Code 1940, T. 47, §157.)
AL Code § 35-12-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 12 - Lost or Unclaimed Property.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-12-4 - Placing Thing Found in Storage.

Section 35-12-4Placing thing found in storage. The finder of a thing may exonerate himself from liability at any time by placing it on storage with any responsible person of good character at a reasonable expense. (Code 1923, §7995; Code 1940, T. 47, §158.)
AL Code § 35-12-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 12 - Lost or Unclaimed Property.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-12-5 - Sale.

Section 35-12-5Sale. (a) The finder of a thing may sell it, if it is a thing which is commonly the subject of sale, when the owner cannot, with reasonable diligence, be found, or, being found, refuses upon demand to pay the lawful charges of the finder in the following cases: (1) When the thing is in danger of perishing, or losing the greater part of its value; or, (2) When the lawful charges of the finder amount to two thirds of its value. (b) A sale under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section must be made in the same manner as the sale of a thing pledged. (Code 1923, §§7996, 7997; Code 1940, T. 47, §§159, 160.)
AL Code § 35-12-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 12 - Lost or Unclaimed Property.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-12-6 - Disposition of Unclaimed Articles Left for Service.

Section 35-12-6Disposition of unclaimed articles left for service. Any person who is regularly engaged in the business of performing services upon articles left in his or her custody for that purpose may, subject to the provisions of this section, make disposition of such articles in any manner he or she sees fit after notice to the owner 10 days prior to the disposition. The notice may be made by letter mailed to the owner's last known address, by advertisement in a local newspaper of general circulation, or by posting at the courthouse. The person shall not incur any liability to owners thereof, if the articles have been unclaimed after certain periods of time as herein defined. (1) Any automobile, truck, tractor, motorcycle, bicycle, agricultural or construction machinery, lawn mower, bush hog, or any other type of vehicular equipment must be retained for at least one year. (2) All laundry, dry cleaning, or clothing of any type must be retained for at least one year. (3) All televisions, radios, irons, kitchen appliances, and all other appliances of any type must be retained for at least three months. (4) All articles not included above must be retained for at least six months. (Acts 1971, No. 1724, p. 2886; Act 99-384, p. 611, §1.)
AL Code § 35-15-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 15 - Duty of Care Owed Persons on Premises for Sporting or Recreational Purposes.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-15-1 - No Duty Owed Except as Provided in Section 35-15-3.

Section 35-15-1No duty owed except as provided in Section 35-15-3. An owner, lessee, or occupant of premises owes no duty of care to keep such premises safe for entry and use by others for hunting, fishing, trapping, camping, water sports, hiking, boating, sight-seeing, caving, climbing, rappelling, or other recreational purposes or to give any warning of hazardous conditions, use of structures or activities on such premises to persons entering for the above-stated purposes, except as provided in Section 35-15-3. (Acts 1965, No. 463, p. 663, §1; Acts 1991, No. 91-666, §1.)
AL Code § 35-15-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 15 - Duty of Care Owed Persons on Premises for Sporting or Recreational Purposes.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-15-2 - Effect of Permission to Use Premises.

Section 35-15-2Effect of permission to use premises. An owner, lessee, or occupant of premises who gives permission to another to hunt, fish, trap, camp, hike, sight-see, cave, climb, rappel, or engage in other sporting or recreational activities upon such premises does not thereby extend any assurance that the premises are safe for such purpose nor constitute the person to whom permission has been granted the legal status of an invitee to whom a duty of care is owed or assume responsibility for or incur liability for any injury to person or property caused by an act of such person to whom permission has been granted, except as provided in Section 35-15-4. (Acts 1965, No. 463, p. 663, §2; Acts 1991, No. 91-666, §1.)
AL Code § 35-15-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 15 - Duty of Care Owed Persons on Premises for Sporting or Recreational Purposes.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-15-3 - Otherwise Existing Liability Not Limited.

Section 35-15-3Otherwise existing liability not limited. This article does not limit the liability which otherwise exists for wilful or malicious failure to guard or warn against a dangerous condition, use, structure, or activity; or for injury suffered in any case where permission to hunt, fish, trap, camp, hike, cave, climb, rappel, or sight-see was granted for commercial enterprise for profit; or for injury caused by acts of persons to whom permission to hunt, fish, trap, camp, hike, or sight-see was granted to third persons as to whom the person granting permission, or the owner, lessee, or occupant of the premises owed a duty to keep the premises safe or to warn of danger. (Acts 1965, No. 463, p. 663, §3; Acts 1991, No. 91-666, §1.)
AL Code § 35-15-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 15 - Duty of Care Owed Persons on Premises for Sporting or Recreational Purposes.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-15-4 - General Duty of Care or Ground of Liability Not Created.

Section 35-15-4General duty of care or ground of liability not created. Nothing in this article creates a duty of care or ground of liability for injury to person or property. (Acts 1965, No. 463, p. 663, §4.)
AL Code § 35-15-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 15 - Duty of Care Owed Persons on Premises for Sporting or Recreational Purposes.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-15-5 - Right to Go on Lands of Another Without Permission Not Created.

Section 35-15-5Right to go on lands of another without permission not created. Nothing in this article shall be construed as granting or creating a right for any person to go on the lands of another without permission of the landowner. (Acts 1965, No. 463, p. 663, §5.)