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AL Code § 42-2-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 42 - United States.|Chapter 2 - Condemnation of Land or Rights-of-Way.|Section 42-2-3 - Order Appointing Day of Hearing; Publication and Service of Notice of Hearing.

Section 42-2-3Order appointing day of hearing; publication and service of notice of hearing. On the filing of the application, the court must make and enter an order appointing the day for the hearing thereof. If the owner of the land resides within the state, the court must issue notice to him of the application and of the day of the hearing thereof, which must be served by the sheriff or other legal officer at least 10 days before the day appointed for the hearing. If the owner is unknown or if he resides without the state or has been absent from the state or beyond the jurisdiction of the court in which the application is made for six months next before the time of the filing of the application in said court, notice may be given by advertisement in any newspaper published in the county or, if there be no newspaper published in the county, by posting notice at the courthouse and three other public places for at least three weeks before the day appointed for the hearing. If the owner is an infant or of unsound mind, notice must be served on his guardian, if any he have, resident in the state, but if he resides in the state and has no such guardian, then the person who may have him in charge or with whom he may reside. If the owner is dead and the lands are in the possession or under the control of his personal representative, notice must be served on such representative and on the heirs at law of the decedent. (Code 1907, §2416; Code 1923, §3150; Code 1940, T. 59, §6.)
AL Code § 42-2-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 42 - United States.|Chapter 2 - Condemnation of Land or Rights-of-Way.|Section 42-2-4 - Appointment of Guardian Ad Litem and Counsel for Infants and Persons of Unsound Mind.

Section 42-2-4Appointment of guardian ad litem and counsel for infants and persons of unsound mind. If the owner of the lands is an infant or is of unsound mind, the court, on the day appointed for the hearing, must appoint a guardian ad litem to represent him, and the guardian so appointed must file a written acceptance of the appointment, must appear and protect the rights and interests of such infant or person of unsound mind and, if he deems it necessary, may employ counsel to assist him. The compensation of such guardian and of his counsel must be ascertained by the court and taxed as costs of the proceedings. (Code 1907, §2417; Code 1923, §3151; Code 1940, T. 59, §7.)
AL Code § 42-2-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 42 - United States.|Chapter 2 - Condemnation of Land or Rights-of-Way.|Section 42-2-5 - Failure of Owner to Appear at Hearing.

Section 42-2-5Failure of owner to appear at hearing. If the owner does not appear on the hearing of the application, the court must hear the same and, if the application is granted, must appoint commissioners as herein provided for, and thereafter the same proceedings shall be had as if such owner had appeared. (Code 1907, §2418; Code 1923, §3152; Code 1940, T. 59, §8.)
AL Code § 42-2-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 42 - United States.|Chapter 2 - Condemnation of Land or Rights-of-Way.|Section 42-2-6 - Conduct of Hearing; Order Granting or Refusing Application; Appeal From Grant or Refusal of Application.

Section 42-2-6Conduct of hearing; order granting or refusing application; appeal from grant or refusal of application. On the day appointed or any other day to which the hearing may be continued, the court must hear the allegations of the application and any objections which may be filed to the granting thereof and any legal evidence touching the same, and shall make an order granting or refusing the application. The hearing herein provided for must in all respects be conducted and evidence taken as in civil cases, and either party may, by bill of exception, reserve any opinion or decision of the court. Either party is entitled to an appeal to the Supreme Court from the order of the court granting or refusing the application within 42 days from the making thereof. (Code 1907, §§2419, 2420; Code 1923, §§3153, 3154; Code 1940, T. 59, §§9, 10.)
AL Code § 42-2-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 42 - United States.|Chapter 2 - Condemnation of Land or Rights-of-Way.|Section 42-2-7 - Commissioners for Assessment of Damages and Compensation - Appointment; Notice to Commissioners; Duties.

Section 42-2-7Commissioners for assessment of damages and compensation - Appointment; notice to commissioners; duties. If the application is granted, the judge of probate must appoint three citizens of the county in which the lands sought to be condemned are situated, who shall possess the qualifications of jurors, who shall be disinterested and who shall be required to file a certificate along with their award that neither of them had ever been consulted, advised with or approached by any person in reference to the value of the lands or the proceedings to condemn the same, prior to the assessment of the damages, and that they knew nothing of the same before their appointment. The judge of probate is authorized to fill any vacancy occasioned by the death, resignation, failure to act or any disqualification of any such commissioners from interest, prior knowledge of the subject matter or by being consulted, advised with or approached in reference to the condemnation of such lands prior to appointment or to the assessment of damages. When the court shall have appointed the commissioners as herein provided, it shall at once issue a notice of such appointment to the sheriff, whose duty it shall be to serve such notice upon the person therein designated within five days of the receipt thereof, and the sheriff shall receive the same compensation for serving such notice as allowed for summoning jurors. It shall be the duty of the commissioners, or a majority of them, thus appointed by the judge of probate to assess the damages and compensation to which the owner of the land is entitled, and they shall be sworn as jurors are sworn. The commissioners may view the lands to be subjected and must receive all legal evidence that may be offered by either party touching the amount of the damages the owner of the lands will sustain and the amount of compensation he is entitled to receive. The amount of compensation to which the owner is entitled must not be reduced or diminished because of any incidental benefits which may accrue to him or to his remaining lands in consequence of the uses to which the lands proposed to be taken or in which an easement is proposed to be acquired will be appropriated. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any applicant for the condemnation of land or any landowner whose land is sought to be condemned from being present in person or by attorney at any of the proceedings or trials provided for in this chapter. (Code 1907, §2421; Code 1923, §3155; Code 1940, T. 59, §11.)
AL Code § 42-2-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 42 - United States.|Chapter 2 - Condemnation of Land or Rights-of-Way.|Section 42-2-8 - Commissioners for Assessment of Damages and Compensation - Report.

Section 42-2-8Commissioners for assessment of damages and compensation - Report. The commissioners must, within 10 days from their appointment, report in writing to the court the amount of damages and compensation ascertained and assessed by them, and thereupon the court must order the same to be recorded and must make an order of condemnation in pursuance thereof upon payment of the damages and compensation so assessed and reported or the deposit of the same in court. (Code 1907, §2422; Code 1923, §3156; Code 1940, T. 59, §12.)
AL Code § 42-2-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 42 - United States.|Chapter 2 - Condemnation of Land or Rights-of-Way.|Section 42-2-9 - Appeal From Assessment of Damages.

Section 42-2-9Appeal from assessment of damages. Either party may appeal from the assessment of damages and compensation by the commissioners to the circuit court of the county within 30 days after the making of the order of condemnation, upon the report of the commissioners, by filing in the court rendering the judgment a written notice of appeal, a copy of which shall be served on the opposite party, and on such appeal the trial shall be de novo. No appeal shall suspend the judgment if the applicant shall pay into court in money the amount of damages assessed and give bond in double the amount so assessed, with good and sufficient surety, to be approved by the judge of probate, to pay such damages as the owner may sustain. (Code 1907, §2423; Code 1923, §3157; Code 1940, T. 59, §13.)
AL Code § 42-2-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 42 - United States.|Chapter 2 - Condemnation of Land or Rights-of-Way.|Section 42-2-10 - Order of Condemnation Vests Title; Right of Entry on Land Pending Appeal.

Section 42-2-10Order of condemnation vests title; right of entry on land pending appeal. The order of condemnation, upon the payment of the sum ascertained and assessed by the verdict of the jury, or the deposit thereof in the court for the defendant, shall vest in the United States the title in fee simple to the lands to be acquired for the uses and purposes stated in the application. But if an appeal shall be taken by either party, then the United States or its agents, upon the deposit in the court for the party whose land is sought to be condemned of the amount of damages and compensation so assessed, together with the cost of the proceeding, and giving a bond in double the amount of damages assessed, shall be entitled to enter upon the land so condemned and survey, construct and operate on the same for the uses, and purposes stated in the application, but such easement shall not vest absolutely in the United States until the final determination of the cause and payment or deposit in court of such damages and compensation as shall then be adjudged. (Code 1907, §2424; Code 1923, §3158; Code 1940, T. 59, §14.)
AL Code § 42-2-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 42 - United States.|Chapter 2 - Condemnation of Land or Rights-of-Way.|Section 42-2-11 - When Damages to Be Paid; Failure to Pay Damages.

Section 42-2-11When damages to be paid; failure to pay damages. The applicant may pay the damages and compensation assessed at any time within six months after the assessment thereof or, in case an appeal is taken, within six months after the appeal is determined. If the applicant fails to pay the same within such time, such assessment shall cease to be binding on the owner of the lands, and the rights of the United States thereunder shall be terminated. (Code 1907, §2425; Code 1923, §3159; Code 1940, T. 59, §15.)
AL Code § 42-2-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 42 - United States.|Chapter 2 - Condemnation of Land or Rights-of-Way.|Section 42-2-12 - Appointment of Commissioner to Execute Conveyance.

Section 42-2-12Appointment of commissioner to execute conveyance. If the application is granted and the lands condemned, as provided in this chapter, and no appeal is taken therefrom, or, if appeal is taken and the lands described are condemned on appeal, the probate court in which the application is filed shall at once appoint a commissioner to execute the conveyance of the title to the lands so condemned and shall convey thereby all such title as the owners had therein to the United States, free from the claims of all persons whomsoever. (Code 1907, §2426; Code 1923, §3160; Code 1940, T. 59, §16.)
AL Code § 42-3-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 42 - United States.|Chapter 3 - Cession of Land by State.|Section 42-3-1 - Authority of Governor to Cede Jurisdiction.

Section 42-3-1Authority of Governor to cede jurisdiction. The Governor, upon application made to him in writing on behalf of the United States for that purpose, accompanied by the proper evidence of title in the United States describing the lands, is authorized on the part of the state, by patent to be recorded in the office of the Secretary of State, to cede to the United States such jurisdiction as he may deem wise over such lands, to hold, to use and occupy the same for the purposes of the cession and none other. (Code 1852, §23; Code 1867, §24; Code 1876, §21; Code 1886, §21; Code 1896, §628; Code 1907, §2427; Code 1923, §3161; Code 1940, T. 59, §18.)
AL Code § 42-3-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 42 - United States.|Chapter 3 - Cession of Land by State.|Section 42-3-2 - Cession of Sites Covered by Navigable Waters.

Section 42-3-2Cession of sites covered by navigable waters. Whenever the United States desires to acquire title to land belonging to this state, covered by the navigable waters of the United States and within the limits of this state for the site of a lighthouse, beacon or other aid to navigation, and application is made therefor by a duly authorized agent of the United States, describing the site required for one of the purposes aforesaid, then the Governor of the state may convey the title to the United States and may also cede to the United States such jurisdiction over the same as may be necessary for the purposes of the United States. Upon like application, the Governor may convey to the United States the title to any land belonging to this state and covered by the navigable waters of the United States upon which any lighthouse or other aid to navigation has heretofore been erected, and may also cede to the United States such jurisdiction over the same as may be necessary for the purposes of the United States. No single tract shall contain more than 10 acres. (Code 1876, §22; Code 1886, §22; Code 1896, §629; Code 1907, §2428; Code 1923, §3162; Code 1940, T. 59, §3.)
AL Code § 42-3-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 42 - United States.|Chapter 3 - Cession of Land by State.|Section 42-3-3 - Reservation of Rights, etc., by State.

Section 42-3-3Reservation of rights, etc., by state. The jurisdiction heretofore ceded to the United States over any lands acquired by it within the State of Alabama, with the consent of the state, shall be subject to such reservations, restrictions and conditions as provided in the act or instrument of cession relating to such acquisition and shall be subject to the exercise by the state of such jurisdiction, rights, privileges or powers as may now or hereafter be ceded by the United States to the state. The jurisdiction ceded to the United States over any lands hereafter acquired by it within the State of Alabama, with the consent of the state, pursuant to the provisions of this title or any other law of the state, unless otherwise expressly provided in the act or instrument of cession, shall be subject to the following reservations, restrictions or conditions: (1) The jurisdiction so ceded shall not prevent the execution upon such lands of any process, civil or criminal, issued under the authority of this state, except as such process might affect the property of the United States thereon. (2) The state expressly reserves the right to tax all persons, firms, corporations or associations now or hereafter residing or located upon such lands. (3) The state expressly reserves the right to tax the exercise by any person, firm, corporation or association of any and all rights, privileges and franchises upon said lands, and to tax property of all persons, firms, corporations or associations situated upon such lands. (4) The jurisdiction ceded to the United States shall be for the purposes of the cession and none other and shall continue during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof and shall use such lands for the purpose of the cession. (5) The state expressly reserves the right to exercise over or upon any such lands any and all rights, privileges, powers or jurisdiction which may now or hereafter be released or receded by the United States to the state. (Code 1923, §3166; Code 1940, T. 59, §19.)
AL Code § 43-6-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 6 - Escheats.|Section 43-6-2 - Notice by Representative.

Section 43-6-2Notice by representative. The personal representative of any person leaving property not devised or bequeathed, or where the devisees or legatees are incapable of taking and such representative is unable to ascertain any lawful heirs or distributees or persons capable of taking within six months after the grant of letters testamentary or of administration, must give notice thereof in some newspaper published in the state once a week for three successive weeks; but it shall not be necessary for any personal representative to institute escheat proceedings under this chapter until the debts of the decedent have been paid. (Code 1852, §2065; Code 1867, §2457; Code 1876, §2852; Code 1886, §1937; Code 1896, §1753; Code 1907, §3919; Code 1923, §7615; Code 1940, T. 16, §26.)
AL Code § 43-6-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 6 - Escheats.|Section 43-6-3 - Contents of Notice.

Section 43-6-3Contents of notice. Such notice must contain the name of the deceased, as near as may be, a description of his person, the place where he was or is supposed to have been born, the place where he died, or was known to reside, and a description of the property of which he died seised and possessed. (Code 1852, §2066; Code 1867, §2458; Code 1876, §2853; Code 1886, §1938; Code 1896, §1754; Code 1907, §3920; Code 1923, §7616; Code 1940, T. 16, §27.)
AL Code § 43-6-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 6 - Escheats.|Section 43-6-4 - Disposition of Personalty When No Heir Appears.

Section 43-6-4Disposition of personalty when no heir appears. If no heir or person entitled to receive such estate appears or is ascertained within 12 months after such publication, the money and proceeds of the personal assets must be paid to the judge of probate, after deducting the expenses of administration. (Code 1852, §2067; Code 1867, §2459; Code 1876, §2854; Code 1886, §1939; Code 1896, §1755; Code 1907, §3921; Code 1923, §7617; Code 1940, T. 16, §28.)
AL Code § 43-6-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 6 - Escheats.|Section 43-6-5 - Disposition of Real Estate When No Heir Appears.

Section 43-6-5Disposition of real estate when no heir appears. If, after two years from the publication of such notice, no heir or person entitled to receive such estate appears, the real estate must be sold by such personal representative, under the direction of the judge of probate of the county in which letters testamentary or of administration were granted and upon such notice as real estate is sold by executors and administrators; and the proceeds thereof must, after deducting all expenses and allowances, be paid to such judge. (Code 1852, §2068; Code 1867, §2460; Code 1876, §2855; Code 1886, §1940; Code 1896, §1756; Code 1907, §3922; Code 1923, §7618; Code 1940, T. 16, §29.)
AL Code § 43-6-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 6 - Escheats.|Section 43-6-6 - Decree Against Personal Representative for Failure to Pay Over Proceeds.

Section 43-6-6Decree against personal representative for failure to pay over proceeds. The judge of probate may render decrees against such personal representative, in the name of the state, for the money or proceeds of the property, under the provisions of this chapter, and enforce the same as other decrees by the judge of probate against executors or administrators are enforced. (Code 1852, §2069; Code 1867, §2461; Code 1876, §2856; Code 1886, §1941; Code 1896, §1757; Code 1907, §3923; Code 1923, §7619; Code 1940, T. 16, §30.)
AL Code § 43-6-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 6 - Escheats.|Section 43-6-7 - Payment of Receipts to State Treasurer.

Section 43-6-7Payment of receipts to state treasurer. The judge of probate must, within three months after the receipt thereof, pay to the treasurer all moneys he may receive under the provisions of this chapter, and, failing so to do, he is liable as a defaulter and also forfeits $300.00, one half to the state, and the other half to any one suing for the same; and, on the trial, the certificate of the treasurer is presumptive evidence of his failure to make such payment. (Code 1852, §2070; Code 1867, §2462; Code 1876, §2857; Code 1886, §1942; Code 1896, §1758; Code 1907, §3924; Code 1923, §7620; Code 1940, T. 16, §31.)
AL Code § 43-6-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 6 - Escheats.|Section 43-6-8 - Action by State to Recover Personal Property Distributed Without Authority.

Section 43-6-8Action by state to recover personal property distributed without authority. The state may enforce its right to any personal property to which it is entitled under the provisions of this chapter by action against any person into whose possession the same may come; and, if any personal representative pays any money or delivers any property to which the state is, under the provisions of this chapter, entitled, to any person not authorized to receive the same, such personal representative and his sureties are liable to the state for the amount of such money or value of such property and interest thereon from the time of such payment or delivery. (Code 1852, §2072; Code 1867, §2464; Code 1876, §2858; Code 1886, §1943; Code 1896, §1759; Code 1907, §3925; Code 1923, §7621; Code 1940, T. 16, §32.)
AL Code § 43-6-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 6 - Escheats.|Section 43-6-9 - Duty of Probate Judge to Attend to Interest of State.

Section 43-6-9Duty of probate judge to attend to interest of state. It is the official duty of the judge of probate of each county to attend to the interest of the state intended to be secured by the provisions of this chapter. (Code 1852, §2073; Code 1867, §2465; Code 1876, §2859; Code 1886, §1944; Code 1896, §1760; Code 1907, §3926; Code 1923, §7622; Code 1940, T. 16, §33.)
AL Code § 43-7-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 7 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act.|Section 43-7-1 - Short Title.

Section 43-7-1Short title. This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act. (Acts 1949, No. 542, p. 852, §8.)
AL Code § 43-7-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 7 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act.|Section 43-7-2 - No Sufficient Evidence of Survivorship; Disposition of Property of Decedents.

Section 43-7-2No sufficient evidence of survivorship; disposition of property of decedents. Where the title to property or the devolution thereof depends upon priority of death and there is no sufficient evidence that the persons have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property of each person shall be disposed of as if he had survived, except as provided otherwise in this chapter. (Acts 1949, No. 542, p. 852, §1.)
AL Code § 43-7-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 7 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act.|Section 43-7-3 - Beneficiaries of Another Person's Disposition of Property.

Section 43-7-3Beneficiaries of another person's disposition of property. Where two or more beneficiaries are designated to take successively by reason of survivorship under another person's disposition of property and there is no sufficient evidence that these beneficiaries have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property thus disposed of shall be divided into as many equal portions as there are successive beneficiaries and these portions shall be distributed respectively to those who would have taken in the event that each designated beneficiary had survived. (Acts 1949, No. 542, p. 852, §2.)