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AL Code § 35-4-73 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-4-73 - Recitation of Marital Status of Grantor or Vendor Required; Probate Judge Not Liable for Good Faith Error; False Recitation a Misdemeanor.

Section 35-4-73Recitation of marital status of grantor or vendor required; probate judge not liable for good faith error; false recitation a misdemeanor. (a) No deed, contract, or other conveyance of land or any interest therein, whether legal or equitable, shall be accepted for record by the probate judge unless it contains a recitation of the marital status of an individual grantor or vendor; provided, that this section shall apply only to instruments executed subsequent to July 21, 1972. (b) A probate judge shall not be liable in damages or for a penalty for an error or mistake in the performance of his duties under this section if committed in good faith. (c) Any person who knowingly makes a false recitation, as provided in subsection (a) of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 172, p. 4422.)
AL Code § 35-4-74 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-4-74 - Necessity for Including Plat or Description of Plat Book, etc.; Probate Judge Not Liable for Good Faith Error.

Section 35-4-74Necessity for including plat or description of plat book, etc.; probate judge not liable for good faith error. (a) No instrument, other than a will, purporting to create or transfer any interest in land shall be accepted for record by a probate judge if such instrument describes the land in which such interest is to be created or transferred by reference to a plat and the plat is not attached to and made a part of the instrument or the instrument does not describe the plat book and the office in which such plat book is to be found and there is no description of the land by metes and bounds; provided, that this section shall apply only to instruments executed subsequent to July 21, 1972; provided further, that where, prior to July 21, 1972, any person has received a conveyance of land, or any interest therein, in which the land is described by reference to a plat which is not recorded and which is not available to him, this section shall not apply if the grantor or mortgagor recites in any instrument executed after July 21, 1972, that the plat is lost, destroyed, or unavailable for recording. (b) A probate judge shall not be liable in damages or for a penalty for any error or mistake in the performance of his duties under this section if committed in good faith. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 171, p. 4422.)
AL Code § 35-4-75 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-4-75 - Time for Delivery of Deed; When Recorded Contract Presumed Abandoned.

Section 35-4-75Time for delivery of deed; when recorded contract presumed abandoned. (a) Where any contract or extension thereof for the sale of any interest in land fails to state the time within which, or the circumstances under which, a deed is to be delivered, the time for the delivery of the deed shall be a reasonable time after the date on which the contract was entered into, and in no case more than one year subsequent to such date. (b) Where any contract for the sale of any interest in land or any extension of such contract has been recorded or rerecorded and five years have elapsed since the time provided by the parties or by subsection (a) of this section for the delivery of the deed, whichever period shall be the longer, and no action has been brought for the specific performance of such contract or for the foreclosure of the vendee's interest or for the enforcement of an equitable lien arising from the contract and no lis pendens has been properly filed, a lienholder or a purchaser for value or mortgagee may conclusively presume that such contract has been abandoned by the parties thereto and that the vendee named in the contract and his successors in interest have no equitable claim against the land made the subject of the contract; provided, that this section shall not apply so long as the vendee named in the contract or his successors in interest shall be in actual possession of the land made the subject of the contract. (c) This section shall apply to contracts and extensions thereof recorded before or after January 31, 1972; except, that the period of five years provided for in subsection (b) of this section shall not be deemed to have expired in any case until January 31, 1974. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 179, p. 4439.)
AL Code § 35-4-76 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 35-4-76 - Limitations on Duration of Option to Purchase Land.

Section 35-4-76Limitations on duration of option to purchase land. (a) No option to purchase any interest in land, other than an option limited in favor of a lessee and exercisable at a time not later than the end of the term of a lease or any extension or renewal thereof, or an option to repurchase reserved by the grantor in a deed, shall be valid or enforceable for a period of more than 20 years. If any such option may, by the terms of the instrument creating it, continue to exist for longer than 20 years, it shall terminate and cease to be enforceable 20 years after the time of its creation. Where the instrument creating any such option shall place no limit upon the duration of the option or otherwise state the terms controlling the duration of the option, the option shall cease to be enforceable two years after the time of its creation. This section shall not apply to options created prior to January 31, 1972. (b) Where an option to purchase land, or any interest therein, or any renewal or extension of such option, has been recorded in the public records of land and one year has elapsed since the expiration of such option or renewal or extension thereof, according to the terms of the recorded instrument by which it was created, extended, or renewed, and no instrument of record gives notice that such option has been exercised, the instrument by which the option was created, renewed, or extended shall cease to be notice of the option, its renewal, or extension, nor shall any person be put on inquiry with respect to the exercise or existence of such option; provided, that this subsection shall become effective January 31, 1973. (c) Subsection (b) of this section shall not apply where a person claiming an option is in possession of the land affected by the option. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 180, p. 4440.)
AL Code § 35-4-90 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 2 - Recordation Necessary as to Purchasers, Mortgagees, and Judgment Creditors.|Section 35-4-90 - Conveyances of Real Property Generally.

Section 35-4-90Conveyances of real property generally. (a) All conveyances of real property, deeds, mortgages, deeds of trust, or instruments in the nature of mortgages to secure any debts are inoperative and void as to purchasers for a valuable consideration, mortgagees, and judgment creditors without notice, unless the same have been recorded before the accrual of the right of such purchasers, mortgagees, or judgment creditors. (b) Subsection (a) of this section includes absolute conveyances of real property defeasible by a defeasance or other instrument, in which case such defeasance or instrument must be recorded, according to its character, within the time limited in subsection (a) of this section or it is void as to purchasers for a valuable consideration, mortgagees, and judgment creditors of the original grantee without notice. (Code 1852, §§1287-1289; Code 1867, §§1557-1559; Code 1876, §§2166-2168; Code 1886, §§1810-1812; Code 1896, §§1005-1007; Code 1907, §§3383, 3384; Code 1923, §§6887, 6888; Code 1940, T. 47, §§120, 121.)
AL Code § 35-4-91 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 2 - Recordation Necessary as to Purchasers, Mortgagees, and Judgment Creditors.|Section 35-4-91 - Instruments Creating Estates in Remainder, Etc.

Section 35-4-91Instruments creating estates in remainder, etc. All wills and conveyances, creating estates in lands in remainder or reversion or upon a condition, after an estate for life or lives, are inoperative and void as against the creditors of the tenant for life or lives in possession after a possession of five years by such tenant, unless the will or conveyance is recorded within five years from the entry and possession of such tenant. (Code 1852, §1290; Code 1867, §1560; Code 1876, §2169; Code 1886, §1813; Code 1896, §1008; Code 1907, §3385; Code 1923, §6889; Code 1940, T. 47, §122.)
AL Code § 35-4-92 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 2 - Recordation Necessary as to Purchasers, Mortgagees, and Judgment Creditors.|Section 35-4-92 - Transfers of Standing Timber, Trees, and Cutting Rights.

Section 35-4-92Transfers of standing timber, trees, and cutting rights. Except as may be otherwise provided by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, all conveyances, mortgages, and other instruments executed hereafter for the purpose of transferring standing timber or trees, or cutting rights with respect thereto, or an interest therein, whether such timber, trees, or rights shall be real or personal property, shall be recorded in the county in which such timber and trees are located in the same manner and books and under the same conditions that conveyances of real property are recorded in such county and with like effect; and no such instrument need be recorded elsewhere. Unless an instrument effecting such transfer and herein required to be recorded is so recorded, any such transfer shall be inoperative and void as against purchasers, mortgagees, and judgment creditors without notice. (Acts 1951, No. 629, p. 1084; Acts 1965, No. 549, p. 811.)
AL Code § 35-4-93 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 2 - Recordation Necessary as to Purchasers, Mortgagees, and Judgment Creditors.|Section 35-4-93 - Marriage Settlements.

Section 35-4-93Marriage settlements. Personal property conveyed in consideration of marriage, when the possession remains with the husband or the husband and wife, must be taken as the property of the husband, in favor of purchasers without notice and creditors, unless such conveyance is recorded in the county of the husband's residence, within 12 months after such possession commenced in this state; and, if the husband removes to another county, within four months after such removal. (Code 1852, §1293; Code 1867, §1563; Code 1876, §2172; Code 1886, §1816; Code 1896, §1011; Code 1907, §3388; Code 1923, §6892; Code 1940, T. 47, §125.)
AL Code § 35-4-94 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 2 - Recordation Necessary as to Purchasers, Mortgagees, and Judgment Creditors.|Section 35-4-94 - Loans in Writing, Wills or Conveyances Creating Estates in Personal Property on Condition, Etc.

Section 35-4-94Loans in writing, wills or conveyances creating estates in personal property on condition, etc. All loans in writing, wills, or conveyances creating estates in personal property, on condition, in reversion or remainder, or in which the use is separated from the right, other than the conveyances hereinabove in this division specified and other than leases (including, without limitation, leases under the Uniform Commercial Code) and security agreements under the Uniform Commercial Code, and under which possession is suffered to remain for three years with the party entitled to the estate or use, vest an absolute estate in the person so having possession for such number of years as to creditors and purchaser of such person unless such loan, will, or conveyance is recorded within such time in the county where such property is; provided, however, that nothing contained in this section shall be construed as applying to any lease (including, without limitation, leases under the Uniform Commercial Code) or to any security interest or security agreement under the Uniform Commercial Code. (Code 1852, §1294; Code 1867, §1564; Code 1876, §2173; Code 1886, §1817; Code 1896, §1012; Code 1907, §3389; Code 1923, §6893; Code 1940, T. 47, §126; Acts 1965, No. 549, p. 811; Acts 1992, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 92-700, p. 92, §605.)
AL Code § 35-4-95 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 2 - Recordation Necessary as to Purchasers, Mortgagees, and Judgment Creditors.|Section 35-4-95 - Effect of Loans of Personal Property Not in Writing.

Section 35-4-95Effect of loans of personal property not in writing. All loans of personal property, not in writing, vest an absolute estate in the person in possession under such loan, as to purchasers and creditors of such person, after three years from the commencement of such loan, unless within that time the lender commences a civil action, in good faith, for the recovery of the property. (Code 1852, §1295; Code 1867, §1565; Code 1876, §2174; Code 1886, §1818; Code 1896, §1013; Code 1907, §3390; Code 1923, §6894; Code 1940, T. 47, §127.)
AL Code § 35-4-96 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 2 - Recordation Necessary as to Purchasers, Mortgagees, and Judgment Creditors.|Section 35-4-96 - Conveyances of Personalty to Minors.

Section 35-4-96Conveyances of personalty to minors. All conveyances of personal property in favor of minor children, except by will, where the custody, control, and visible possession thereof is suffered to remain by the donor with the father or mother of such children, vest an absolute estate in such father or mother so in possession, in favor of the purchasers from, and creditors of, such father or mother, without notice, unless the conveyance is recorded within three years after such possession commenced in this state in the county of the residence of such father or mother. (Code 1852, §1296; Code 1867, §1566; Code 1876, §2175; Code 1886, §1819; Code 1896, §1014; Code 1907, §3391; Code 1923, §6895; Code 1940, T. 47, §128.)
AL Code § 35-4-97 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 2 - Recordation Necessary as to Purchasers, Mortgagees, and Judgment Creditors.|Section 35-4-97 - Effect of Parol Gifts of Personal Property.

Section 35-4-97Effect of parol gifts of personal property. Parol gifts of personal property are inoperative until the custody, control, management, and use of the property passes from the donor to the donee and is possessed by such donee or his agent; when the donee is a minor living with his parents, or either of them, the possession of the father or parent with whom he is living must be considered the possession of the child. (Code 1852, §1297; Code 1867, §1567; Code 1876, §2176; Code 1886, §1820; Code 1896, §1015; Code 1907, §3392; Code 1923, §6896; Code 1940, T. 47, §129.)
AL Code § 35-4-98 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 2 - Recordation Necessary as to Purchasers, Mortgagees, and Judgment Creditors.|Section 35-4-98 - When Conditional Sales Contract Received in Evidence.

Section 35-4-98When conditional sales contract received in evidence. Such a conditional sales contract, when the execution thereof has been acknowledged or proved before an officer having authority to take and certify the acknowledgment of conveyances and when such contract has been duly recorded, must be received in evidence without other proof of execution; and, if the original of such contract is lost or destroyed, or the party offering in evidence a certified transcript has not the custody or control thereof, a certified transcript from the record thereof must be received in evidence without other proof of the execution of the original. (Code 1886, §1822; Code 1896, §1018; Code 1907, §3395; Code 1923, §6899; Code 1940, T. 47, §132.)
AL Code § 35-4-110 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 3 - Statement of Name and Address of Preparer of Certain Instruments.|Section 35-4-110 - Instrument Not Recordable Unless Statement Endorsed on It.

Section 35-4-110Instrument not recordable unless statement endorsed on it. No probate judge shall receive for record or permit the recording of any instrument in which the title to real property, or any interest therein, or lien thereon, is conveyed, granted, encumbered, assigned, or otherwise disposed of, or any instrument relating to the organization, reorganization, or dissolution of a private corporation, unless such instrument has endorsed on it a printed, typewritten, or stamped statement showing the name and address of the individual who prepared the instrument. If the instrument is in part composed of a printed form the person.preparing the instrument shall be the person who filled in the blanks in the form or examined the entries made in such blanks by some other person. (Acts 1965, No. 624, p. 1137, §1; Acts 1969, No. 121, p. 397; Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 178, p. 4438, §1.)
AL Code § 35-4-111 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 3 - Statement of Name and Address of Preparer of Certain Instruments.|Section 35-4-111 - Probate Judge Not Liable for Good Faith Errors.

Section 35-4-111Probate judge not liable for good faith errors. The probate judge shall not be liable in damages or penalty for any error or mistake in the performance of the duties prescribed in this division if committed in good faith. (Acts 1965, No. 624, 1137, §2; Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 178, p. 4438, §2.)
AL Code § 35-4-112 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 3 - Statement of Name and Address of Preparer of Certain Instruments.|Section 35-4-112 - When Division Not Applicable.

Section 35-4-112When division not applicable. This division shall not apply to the recording of any will, decree, court order, or judgment; nor to any instrument executed prior to July 21, 1972; except, that it shall apply to instruments executed since January 1, 1966, in counties having a population of over 600,000 inhabitants according to the 1960 or any succeeding federal census, and to all instruments executed since July 1, 1969, in counties having a population of 300,000 inhabitants according to the 1960 or a succeeding federal census. (Acts 1965, No. 624, p. 1137, §4; Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 178, p. 4438, §3.)
AL Code § 35-4-113 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 3 - Statement of Name and Address of Preparer of Certain Instruments.|Section 35-4-113 - Form.

Section 35-4-113Form. An instrument will be in compliance with this division if it contains a statement in the following form: "This instrument was prepared by (Name) ____ Address) ____." (Acts 1965, No. 624, p. 1137, §5; Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 178, p. 4438, §4.)
AL Code § 35-4-120 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 4 - Alabama Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act.|Section 35-4-120 - Short Title.

Section 35-4-120Short title. This division may be cited as the Alabama Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act. (Act 2009-510, p. 954, §1.)
AL Code § 35-4-121 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 4 - Alabama Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act.|Section 35-4-121 - Definitions.

Section 35-4-121Definitions.  In this division: (1) "Document" means information that is: a. Inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. b. Eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the judge of probate. (2) "Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. (3) "Electronic document" means a document that is received by the judge of probate in an electronic form. (4) "Electronic signature" means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document. (5) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. (6) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. (Act 2009-510, p. 954, §2.)
AL Code § 35-4-122 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 3 - Recordation and Registration in General.|Division 4 - Alabama Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act.|Section 35-4-122 - Validity of Electronic Documents.

Section 35-4-122Validity of electronic documents. (a) If a law requires, as a condition for recording, that a document be an original, be on paper or another tangible medium, or be in writing, the requirement is satisfied by an electronic document satisfying this act. (b) If a law requires, as a condition for recording, that a document be signed, the requirement is satisfied by an electronic signature. (c) A requirement that a document or a signature associated with a document be notarized, acknowledged, verified, witnessed, or made under oath is satisfied if the electronic signature of the person authorized to perform that act, and all other information required to be included, is attached to or logically associated with the document or signature. A physical or electronic image of a stamp, impression, or seal need not accompany an electronic signature. (Act 2009-510, p. 954, §3.)