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AL Code § 8-1-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 2 - Accord and Satisfaction.|Section 8-1-23 - Obligation Extinguished by New Consideration or Writing.

Section 8-1-23Obligation extinguished by new consideration or writing. An obligation is extinguished by a release therefrom given to the debtor by the creditor upon a new consideration or in writing with or without new consideration. (Code 1923, §5643; Code 1940, T. 9, §4.)
AL Code § 8-1-40 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 3 - Specific Performance.|Section 8-1-40 - Specific Performance Not Enforced in Certain Cases.

Section 8-1-40Specific performance not enforced in certain cases. Specific performance cannot be enforced against a party to a contract in any of the following cases: (1) If he has not received an adequate consideration for the contract; (2) If it is not, as to him, just and reasonable; (3) If his assent was obtained by the misrepresentation, concealment, circumvention or unfair practices of any party to whom performance would become due under the contract or by any promise of such party which has not been substantially fulfilled; or (4) If his assent was given under the influence of mistake, misapprehension, or surprise; except, that where the contract provides for compensation in case of mistake, a mistake within the scope of such provision may be compensated for and the contract specifically enforced in other respects if proper to be so enforced. (Code 1923, §6834; Code 1940, T. 9, §56.)
AL Code § 8-1-41 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 3 - Specific Performance.|Section 8-1-41 - Obligations Which Cannot Be Specifically Enforced.

Section 8-1-41Obligations which cannot be specifically enforced. The following obligations cannot be specifically enforced: (1) An obligation to render personal service; (2) An obligation to employ another in personal service; (3) An agreement to submit a controversy to arbitration; (4) An agreement to perform an act which the party has not power lawfully to perform when required to do so; (5) An agreement to procure the act or consent of the wife of the contracting party or of any other third persons; or (6) An agreement, the terms of which are not sufficiently certain to make the precise act which is to be done clearly ascertainable. (Code 1923, §6833; Code 1940, T. 9, §55.)
AL Code § 8-1-42 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 3 - Specific Performance.|Section 8-1-42 - Specific Performance Not Enforced for Party Not Fully Performing Conditions Precedent.

Section 8-1-42Specific performance not enforced for party not fully performing conditions precedent. Specific performance cannot be enforced in favor of a party who has not fully and fairly performed all the conditions precedent on his part to the obligation of the other party, except where his failure to perform is only partial and either entirely immaterial or capable of being fully compensated, in which case specific performance may be compelled, upon full compensation being made for the default. (Code 1923, §6835; Code 1940, T. 9, §57.)
AL Code § 8-1-43 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 3 - Specific Performance.|Section 8-1-43 - Neither Party to Obligation Compelled Specifically to Perform Unless Other Party Performs.

Section 8-1-43Neither party to obligation compelled specifically to perform unless other party performs. Neither party to an obligation can be compelled specifically to perform it unless the other party thereto has performed or is compelled specifically to perform everything to which the former is entitled under the same obligation, either completely or nearly so, with full compensation for any want of entire performance. Code 1923, § 6829; Code 1940, T. 9, §51.)
AL Code § 8-1-44 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 3 - Specific Performance.|Section 8-1-44 - Contract Signed by One Party Only May Be Enforced by Other.

Section 8-1-44Contract signed by one party only may be enforced by other. A party who has signed a written contract may be compelled specifically to perform it, though the other party has not signed it, if the latter has performed, or offers to perform, it on his part and the case is otherwise proper for enforcing specific performance. (Code 1923, §6831; Code 1940, T. 9, §53.)
AL Code § 8-1-45 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 3 - Specific Performance.|Section 8-1-45 - Imposition of Penalty or Liquidation of Damages Not Bar to Specific Performance.

Section 8-1-45Imposition of penalty or liquidation of damages not bar to specific performance. A contract otherwise proper to be specifically enforced may be thus enforced, though a penalty is imposed or the damages are liquidated for its breach and the party in default is willing to pay the same. (Code 1923, §6832; Code 1940, T. 9, §54.)
AL Code § 8-1-46 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 3 - Specific Performance.|Section 8-1-46 - Obligation on Real Estate Specifically Enforced Against Person Subsequently Claiming Title.

Section 8-1-46Obligation on real estate specifically enforced against person subsequently claiming title. Whenever an obligation in respect to real property would be specifically enforced against a particular person, it may be in like manner enforced against any other person claiming under him by a title created subsequently to the obligation, except a purchaser or encumbrancer in good faith and for value, and except, also, that any such person may exonerate himself by conveying all his estate to the person entitled to enforce the obligation. (Code 1923, §6836; Code 1940, T. 9, §58.)
AL Code § 8-1-47 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 3 - Specific Performance.|Section 8-1-47 - Presumptions as to Availability of Specific Performance as Remedy.

Section 8-1-47Presumptions as to availability of specific performance as remedy. It is to be presumed that the breach of an agreement to transfer real property cannot be adequately relieved by pecuniary compensation and that the breach of an agreement to transfer personal property can be thus relieved. (Code 1923, §6830; Code 1940, T. 9, §52.)
AL Code § 8-1-60 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 4 - Hirings.|Section 8-1-60 - Thing Let for Particular Purpose to Be So Used.

Section 8-1-60Thing let for particular purpose to be so used. When a thing is let for a particular purpose, the lessee must not use it for any other purpose; and if he does, he is liable to the lessor for all damages resulting from such use, or the lessor may treat the contract as thereby rescinded. (Code 1923, §6273; Code 1940, T. 9, §7.)
AL Code § 8-1-61 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 4 - Hirings.|Section 8-1-61 - Lessee to Use Ordinary Care.

Section 8-1-61Lessee to use ordinary care. The lessee of a thing must use ordinary care for its preservation in safety and good condition. (Code 1923, §6271; Code 1940, T. 9, §5.)
AL Code § 8-1-62 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 4 - Hirings.|Section 8-1-62 - Lessee to Repair Injuries.

Section 8-1-62Lessee to repair injuries. The lessee of a thing must repair all deteriorations or injuries thereto occasioned by the want of ordinary care. (Code 1923, §6272; Code 1940, T. 9, §6.)
AL Code § 8-1-63 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 4 - Hirings.|Section 8-1-63 - When Lessor May Reclaim Before End of Term.

Section 8-1-63When lessor may reclaim before end of term. The lessor of a thing may terminate the hiring and reclaim the thing before the end of the term agreed upon: (1) When the lessee uses or permits a use of the thing hired in a manner contrary to the agreement of the parties; or (2) When the lessee does not, within a reasonable time, after request, make such repair as he is bound to make. (Code 1923, §6274; Code 1940, T. 9, §8.)
AL Code § 8-1-100 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 6 - Bidding at Public Sales.|Section 8-1-100 - Consideration for Bidding or Not Bidding at Public Sale Prohibited.

Section 8-1-100Consideration for bidding or not bidding at public sale prohibited. No person shall receive, directly or indirectly, any money or thing of value in consideration of bidding or not bidding at any public sale within this state. (Code 1852, §1557; Code 1867, §1869; Code 1876, §2127; Code 1886, §1738; Code 1896, §2159; Code 1907, §3334; Code 1923, §6804; Code 1940, T. 9, §25.)
AL Code § 8-1-101 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 6 - Bidding at Public Sales.|Section 8-1-101 - Bids on Public Lands Under Agreement to Transfer Same Prohibited.

Section 8-1-101Bids on public lands under agreement to transfer same prohibited. No person shall bid off any of the public lands within this state under an agreement, previously made, to transfer the same, or any part thereof, or interest therein, for a premium or advance to be paid therefor. (Code 1852, §1558; Code 1867, §1870; Code 1876, §2128; Code 1886, §1739; Code 1896, §2160; Code 1907, §3335; Code 1923, §6805; Code 1940, T. 9, §26.)
AL Code § 8-1-102 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 6 - Bidding at Public Sales.|Section 8-1-102 - Contracts Violating Sections 8-1-100 and 8-1-101 Void.

Section 8-1-102Contracts violating Sections 8-1-100 and 8-1-101 void. (a) All contracts in violation of the provisions of Sections 8-1-100 and 8-1-101 are void. (b) Any person violating such provisions forfeits double the amount of money or value of the thing received, agreed to be received or paid, to the use of the person suing for the same, and anyone interested in the sale may sue therefor. (Code 1852, §1559; Code 1867, §1871; Code 1876, §2129; Code 1886, §1740; Code 1896, §2161; Code 1907, §3336; Code 1923, §6806; Code 1940, T. 9, §27.)
AL Code § 8-1-103 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 6 - Bidding at Public Sales.|Section 8-1-103 - Selling Improvements on Public Lands by Person Making Same.

Section 8-1-103Selling improvements on public lands by person making same. Nothing in Sections 8-1-100 and 8-1-101 must be so construed as to prevent any person who has made improvements on public lands from selling the same and receiving the purchase money therefor. (Code 1852, §1561; Code 1867, §1873; Code 1876, §2130; Code 1886, §1741; Code 1896, §2162; Code 1907, §3337; Code 1923, §6807; Code 1940, T. 9, §28.)
AL Code § 8-1-120 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 7 - Future Delivery.|Section 8-1-120 - Definitions.

Section 8-1-120Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) CONTRACT OF SALE. Such term shall include sales, agreements of sale, and agreements to sell. (2) PERSON. Such term shall be construed to import the plural or singular, as the case demands, and shall include individuals, associations, partnerships, and corporations. (Acts 1915, No. 791, p. 913; Code 1923, §6815; Code 1940, T. 9, §29.)
AL Code § 8-1-121 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 7 - Future Delivery.|Section 8-1-121 - Certain Contracts for Future Delivery Void; Exceptions.

Section 8-1-121Certain contracts for future delivery void; exceptions. (a) All contracts of sale for the future delivery of any commodity, article, personal property, stock or bond, wherein the parties thereto do not intend a delivery of the article contracted for, but do intend to gamble on the difference between the contract price and some subsequent market price, shall be illegal and void, and no action shall be maintained in any court to enforce such contract or to compel payment of any note or security given in payment or settlement of the same. (b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not be construed so as to apply to any person, firm, corporation or his or their agent, engaged in the business of manufacturing or wholesale merchandising in the purchase or sale of the necessary commodities required in the ordinary course of their business. (Code 1907, §§3349, 3350; Acts 1915, No. 791, p. 913; Code 1923, §§6816, 6818; Code 1940, T. 9, §§30, 32.)
AL Code § 8-1-122 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 7 - Future Delivery.|Section 8-1-122 - Failure to Furnish Statement on Future Delivery Prima Facie Evidence of Illegal Contract.

Section 8-1-122Failure to furnish statement on future delivery prima facie evidence of illegal contract. Every person shall furnish, upon demand, to any principal for whom such person has executed any order for the actual purchase or sale of any commodities, stocks, or bonds for future delivery, a written statement containing the names of the persons from whom such property was bought or to whom it has been sold, as the fact may be, the time when and the place where, and if the person shall refuse or neglect to furnish such statement within 24 hours after such demand, such refusal or neglect shall be prima facie evidence that such purchase or sale was an illegal contract declared void by this article. (Acts 1915, No. 791, p. 913; Code 1923, §6817; Code 1940, T. 9, §31.)
AL Code § 8-1-123 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 7 - Future Delivery.|Section 8-1-123 - Failure to Deliver After Deposit of Margins Prima Facie Evidence of Void Contract.

Section 8-1-123Failure to deliver after deposit of margins prima facie evidence of void contract. Proof that anything of value agreed to be sold and delivered was not actually delivered at the time of making the agreement to sell and deliver and that one of the parties to such agreement deposited or secured, or agreed to deposit or secure, what are commonly called "margins" shall constitute prima facie evidence of a contract declared void by this article. (Code 1907, §3351; Acts 1915, No. 791, p. 913; Code 1923, §6819; Code 1940, T. 9, §33.)
AL Code § 8-1-124 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 7 - Future Delivery.|Section 8-1-124 - Contracts for Future Delivery of Cotton Not Made Subject to Federal Statutes Prima Facie Evidence of Void Contract.

Section 8-1-124Contracts for future delivery of cotton not made subject to federal statutes prima facie evidence of void contract. Proof of the fact that any contract for the future delivery of cotton was not made subject to the provisions of any federal statute relating thereto, including such amendments as may hereafter be made to such statutes by Congress, shall be prima facie evidence of an illegal contract declared void by this article. (Acts 1915, No. 791, p. 913; Code 1940, T. 9, §33.)
AL Code § 8-1-125 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 7 - Future Delivery.|Section 8-1-125 - Making or Assisting in Making Contract for Future Delivery When Actual Delivery Not Intended - Profit Intended to Be Paid in Money on Day of Delivery.

Section 8-1-125Making or assisting in making contract for future delivery when actual delivery not intended - Profit intended to be paid in money on day of delivery. If any person shall become a party to any contract for the sale and future delivery of any article or personal property in which it is not intended by the parties thereto that such property shall be actually delivered, but rather the difference between the contract price and the market price on the day of delivery shall be paid in money, if any person shall be the agent, directly or indirectly, of any such party in making, furthering, or effectuating the same, or if any agent or officer of any corporation shall knowingly aid in any way or manner in making or furthering any such contract to which such corporation shall be a party, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500, and may be sentenced to hard labor for not less than one month nor more than six months. (Code 1907, §6473; Code 1923, §3576; Code 1940, T. 9, §35.)
AL Code § 8-1-126 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 7 - Future Delivery.|Section 8-1-126 - Making or Assisting in Making Contract for Future Delivery When Actual Delivery Not Intended - Price Based on Bona Fide Sales on Exchange or Board of Trade Without Making Execution on Exchange or Board of Trade.

Section 8-1-126Making or assisting in making contract for future delivery when actual delivery not intended - Price based on bona fide sales on exchange or board of trade without making execution on exchange or board of trade. (a) Any person, either as agent or principal, who enters into or assists in making any contract of sale for the future delivery of any commodity, article, personal property, stock or bond, wherein no delivery is intended by the parties thereto, and uses as a basis for fixing the price or prices in such contract the bona fide sales made on any exchange or board of trade, without making a bona fide execution of such contract on such exchange or board of trade, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) Upon conviction thereof, such a person shall be fined in a sum not to exceed $1,000 or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding two years, and any person or persons who shall be guilty of a second offense under this section may be, upon conviction, both fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the court, in addition to the penalty above described, and if a corporation, it shall be liable to forfeiture of all its rights and privileges as such. (c) The continuance of such establishment after the first conviction shall be deemed a second offense. (Acts 1915, No. 791, p. 913; Code 1923, §3577; Code 1940, T. 9, §36.)
AL Code § 8-1-127 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 7 - Future Delivery.|Section 8-1-127 - Futures Contracts Made in Another State.

Section 8-1-127Futures contracts made in another state. If any person shall consent while in this state to become a party to any futures contract contrary to Section 8-1-126, made in another state, or if any person shall become, as agent of any person or corporation, a party to any such contract made in another state or in this state do any act or in any way aid in the making or furthering such contract so made in another state, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $200 and may be sentenced to hard labor for not less than one month nor more than six months. (Code 1907, §6474; Code 1923, §3578; Code 1940, T. 9, §37.)
AL Code § 8-1-128 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 7 - Future Delivery.|Section 8-1-128 - Establishing Office to Engage in Business of "Futures".

Section 8-1-128Establishing office to engage in business of "futures". If any person, corporation or other association of persons, either as principals or agents, shall establish or open an office or other place of business in this state for the purpose of carrying on or engaging in any business of making contracts to sell and deliver any cotton, Indian corn, wheat, rye, oats, tobacco, meal, lard, bacon, salt pork, salt fish, beef cattle, sugar, coffee, stocks, bonds, or choses in action at a place and a time specified and agreed upon therein to any other person, whether the person to whom such article is so agreed to be sold and delivered shall be a party to such contract or not, when in fact and notwithstanding the terms expressed in such contracts it is not intended by the parties thereto that the articles or things so agreed to be sold and delivered shall be actually delivered or the value thereof paid, but rather it is intended and understood by them that money or other thing of value shall be paid to the one party by the other, or to a third party, the party to whom such payment of money or other thing of value shall be made to depend and the amount of such money or other thing of value so to be paid to depend upon whether the market price or value of the article so agreed to be sold and delivered is greater or less at the time and place so specified than the price stipulated to be paid and received for the articles so to be sold and delivered, or for making contracts commonly called "futures," as to the several articles and things hereinbefore specified, or any of them, by whatever name called, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $100 and may be sentenced to hard labor for not less than one month, and upon a second conviction, he shall be fined not less than $500 and sentenced to hard labor for not less than six months. (Code 1907, §6475; Code 1923, §3579; Code 1940, T. 9, §38.)
AL Code § 8-1-129 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 1 - Contracts.|Article 7 - Future Delivery.|Section 8-1-129 - Proof of Establishment of Place to Publish Commodities Information Prima Facie Evidence of Guilt.

Section 8-1-129Proof of establishment of place to publish commodities information prima facie evidence of guilt. Proof that any person, corporation, or other association of persons, either as principals or agents, has established an office or place where are posted or published from information received the fluctuating prices of grain, cotton, provisions, stocks, bonds, and other commodities or of any one or more of the same shall constitute prima facie evidence of being guilty of violating this article. (Code 1907, §6477; Code 1923, §3581; Code 1940, T. 9, §40.)