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AL Code § 35-4-29 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 2 - Execution, Attestation, and Acknowledgment.|Section 35-4-29 - Form of Acknowledgment.

Section 35-4-29Form of acknowledgment. The following are substantially the forms of acknowledgment to be used in this state, on conveyances and instruments of every description admitted to record:ACKNOWLEDGMENT FOR INDIVIDUALThe State of ________}____________County} I (name and style of officer) hereby certify that ______ whose name is signed to the foregoing conveyance, and who is known to me, acknowledged before me on this day that, being informed of the contents of the conveyance, he executed the same voluntarily on the day the same bears date. Given under my hand this _____ day of _____, A. D. 20__. A. B. Judge, etc. (or as the case may be) ACKNOWLEDGMENT FOR CORPORATIONThe State of ________}____________County} I, _____, a ______ in and for said County in said State, hereby certify that _____ whose name as _____ of the _____, a corporation, is signed to the foregoing conveyance and who is known to me, acknowledged before me on this day that, being informed of the contents of the conveyance, he, as such officer and with full authority, executed the same voluntarily for and as the act of said corporation.Given under my hand this the _____ day of _____, 20__  _________ (Style of Officer) ACKNOWLEDGMENT FOR AN OFFICIAL OR OTHER PERSON IN REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITYThe State of ________}____________County} I, _____, a _____, in and for said County in said State, hereby certify that _____, whose name as _____ (here state representative capacity) is signed to the foregoing conveyance and who is known to me, acknowledged before me on this day that, being informed of the contents of the conveyance, he, in his capacity as such ______, executed the same voluntarily on the day the same bears date.Given under my hand this the _____ day of _____, 20__  _________ (Style of Officer) ACKNOWLEDGMENT FOR CORPORATION, IN REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITYThe State of ________}____________County} I, _____, a _____ in and for said County, in said State, hereby certify that _____ whose name as _____ of _____, a corporation as _____ of the estate of _____ (or as the case may be) is signed to the foregoing _____, and who is known to me, acknowledged before me on this day, that being informed of the contents of said _____, he, as such officer, and with full authority, executed the same voluntarily for and as the act of said corporation, acting in its capacity as _____ as aforesaid. Given under my hand this the _____ day of _____, 20__  _________ (Style of Officer) (Code 1852, §1279; Code 1867, §1548; Code 1876, §2158; Code 1886, §1802; Code 1896, §996; Code 1907, §3361; Code 1923, §6845; Code 1940, T. 47, §30; Acts 1951, No. 85, p. 301.)
AL Code § 35-4-30 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 2 - Execution, Attestation, and Acknowledgment.|Section 35-4-30 - Form of Probate of Conveyance.

Section 35-4-30Form of probate of conveyance. The form of a probate of a conveyance or other instrument is as follows:The State of ________}____________ County} I, (name and style of the officer), hereby certify that ______, a subscribing witness to the foregoing conveyance, known to me, appeared before me on this day, and being sworn, stated that _______, the grantor, voluntarily executed the same in his presence, and in the presence of the other subscribing witness, on the day the same bears date; that he attested the same in the presence of the grantor, and of the other witness, and that such other witness subscribed his name as a witness in his presence. Given under my hand, this ______ day of _____, A. D._____. A. B. Judge, etc. (or as the case may be).  (Code 1852, §1280; Code 1867, §1549; Code 1876, §2159; Code 1886, §1803; Code 1896, §997; Code 1907, §3362; Code 1923, §6846; Code 1940, T. 47, §31.)
AL Code § 35-4-31 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 2 - Execution, Attestation, and Acknowledgment.|Section 35-4-31 - Livery of Seisin Unnecessary.

Section 35-4-31Livery of seisin unnecessary. Livery of seisin is not necessary in any conveyance of lands, and the property and possession of the grantor pass as fully by his conveyance as if seisin had been formally delivered. (Code 1852, §1316; Code 1867, §1586; Code 1876, §2195; Code 1886, §1841; Code 1896, §1037; Code 1907, §3364; Code 1923, §6848; Code 1940, T. 47, §33.)
AL Code § 35-4-32 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 2 - Execution, Attestation, and Acknowledgment.|Section 35-4-32 - Attornment of Tenant Unnecessary.

Section 35-4-32Attornment of tenant unnecessary. Every conveyance of an estate in any hereditament, corporeal or incorporeal, is good and effectual without attornment of the tenant; but no tenant who has paid his rent without notice of such conveyance is liable therefor. (Code 1852, §1298; Code 1867, §1568; Code 1876, §2177; Code 1886, §1823; Code 1896, §1019; Code 1907, §3365; Code 1923, §6849; Code 1940, T. 47, §34.)
AL Code § 35-4-33 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 2 - Execution, Attestation, and Acknowledgment.|Section 35-4-33 - Judgment for Specific Performance.

Section 35-4-33Judgment for specific performance. A judgment for specific performance shall operate as a deed to convey land or other property without any conveyance being executed by the vendor. Such judgment, certified by the clerk or register, shall be recorded in the registry of deeds in the county where the land lies, and shall stand in the place of a deed. In any action in which the court orders the specific performance of a contract for the sale of real estate, when it appears from the evidence that the party in whose favor the judgment is made is entitled to the possession of the real estate as against the other party and that such other party is in person or by tenants in possession of such real estate, the court may, in such judgment of specific performance, order the issuance of a writ of possession as in ejectment cases. (Code 1907, §3366; Code 1923, §6850; Code 1940, T. 47, §35.)
AL Code § 35-4-34 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 2 - Execution, Attestation, and Acknowledgment.|Section 35-4-34 - Recitation of Consideration Unnecessary.

Section 35-4-34Recitation of consideration unnecessary. No deed or other conveyance creating or transferring any interest in land shall be invalid or ineffective because of the fact that it does not recite a good or valuable consideration or no such consideration exists or is given; provided that this section shall in no way affect any equitable rights or remedies of the parties to the deed or other conveyance. A deed or other conveyance purporting to create or transfer any interest in land, executed prior to January 21, 1971, shall be valid and effective notwithstanding the fact that it does not recite a good or valuable consideration or no such consideration existed or was given; provided, that this section shall in no way affect any equitable rights or remedies of the parties to the deed or other conveyance. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 170, p. 4420.)
AL Code § 35-4-130 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 4 - Lis Pendens.|Section 35-4-130 - Lis Pendens Record.

Section 35-4-130Lis pendens record. The judge of probate of each county in this state shall keep in his office as a public record a suitable book, to be called a lis pendens record. (Acts 1915, No. 77, p. 122; Code 1923, §6877; Code 1940, T. 47, §65.)
AL Code § 35-4-131 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 4 - Lis Pendens.|Section 35-4-131 - Notice of Actions, Etc.

Section 35-4-131Notice of actions, etc. (a) When any civil action or proceeding shall be brought in any court to enforce any lien upon, right to or interest in, or to recover any land, or where an application has been made to the probate judge of any county for an order of condemnation of land, or any interest therein, the person, corporation, or governmental body commencing such action or proceeding or making such application shall file with the judge of probate of each county where the land or any part thereof is situated a notice containing the names of all of the parties to the action or proceeding, or the persons named as those having an interest in the land in the application for an order of condemnation, a description of the real estate and a brief statement of the nature of the lien, writ, application, or action sought to be enforced. The judge of probate shall immediately file and record the notice in the lis pendens record and note on it and in the record the hour and date of the filing and the place and date of recording. (b) A copy of the notice required by Section 6-6-564, regarding in rem proceedings involving claims to title of land, certified by the register or clerk as being correct, shall also be recorded as a lis pendens in the office of probate judge of the county where the lands lie. (Acts 1915, No. 77, p. 122; Acts 1923, No. 526, p. 699; Code 1923, §§6878, 9916; Code 1940, T. 7, §1120; Code 1940, T. 47, §66; Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 181, p. 4441, §1.)
AL Code § 35-4-132 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 4 - Lis Pendens.|Section 35-4-132 - Notice of Levy.

Section 35-4-132Notice of levy. When a sheriff, constable, United States marshal, or other officer shall levy upon land by virtue of any process, he shall file with the judge of probate of each county where the land or any party thereof is situated a notice of the levy, showing the names of the parties to the proceeding, the kind of process, and a description of the land levied on. The judge of probate shall file and record and note upon the notice and record as in Section 35-4-131. (Acts 1915, No. 77, p. 122; Code 1923, §6879; Code 1940, T. 47, §67; Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 181, p. 4441, §2.)
AL Code § 35-4-133 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 4 - Lis Pendens.|Section 35-4-133 - Notices to Be Recorded in Full; Indorsement on Original.

Section 35-4-133Notices to be recorded in full; indorsement on original. Any notice filed with the judge of probate under this article shall be recorded in such record in full, and the original of such notice shall bear the indorsement of the time of filing for record and the book and page wherein such notice is recorded. (Acts 1915, No. 77, p. 122; Code 1923, §6884; Code 1940, T. 47, §72.)
AL Code § 35-4-134 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 4 - Lis Pendens.|Section 35-4-134 - Index of Notices.

Section 35-4-134Index of notices. The judge of probate, upon filing and recording each notice, shall index the same, both directly and indirectly, under the name of each party to the proceeding. (Acts 1915, No. 77, p. 122; Code 1923, §6880; Code 1940, T. 47, §68.)
AL Code § 35-4-135 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 4 - Lis Pendens.|Section 35-4-135 - Bona Fide Purchasers, etc., Protected Upon Failure to Record Notice.

Section 35-4-135Bona fide purchasers, etc., protected upon failure to record notice. If the notice required by Sections 35-4-131 and 35-4-132 shall not be entered in the lis pendens record, the action, proceeding, or application shall not affect the rights of a bona fide purchaser, lessee, or mortgagee of any interest in such land or any person then or thereafter asserting a lien against such land unless he or they have actual notice of the action, proceeding, levy, or application. (Acts 1915, No. 77, p. 122; Code 1923, §6881; Code 1940, T. 47, §69; Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 181, p. 4441, §3.)
AL Code § 35-4-136 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 4 - Lis Pendens.|Section 35-4-136 - Record of Termination of Action; Microfilm.

Section 35-4-136Record of termination of action; microfilm. Where the action, proceeding, or levy, notice of which has been entered in the lis pendens record, shall be terminated, whether on the merits or not, the court wherein the same was pending may direct the judge of probate who has custody of the record to make such entry thereof as he shall prescribe, to give notice of the result of the action, proceeding, or levy and of the devolution of the land, and the judge of probate shall at once, on presentation thereof, file and record an entry and note the date of filing and recording on the record; provided, that where an application has been made for an order of condemnation of land, or any interest therein, the probate judge shall make such entry on his own motion. The officer or party filing such notice must, within 30 days after demand, enter on the margin of the record of the same satisfaction of such claim under the lis pendens notice whenever the same shall have been fully satisfied or terminated, and such satisfaction shall have the same effect as if made by the judge of probate as provided in this article. Nothing in this section, nor in Section 35-4-137, shall be construed to alter the form used in maintaining the lis pendens records in those counties where the public land records are, by authority of the statute law of the State of Alabama, maintained on microfilm. (Acts 1915, No. 77, p. 122; Code 1923, §6882; Code 1940, T. 47, §70; Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 181, p. 4441, §4.)
AL Code § 35-4-137 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 4 - Lis Pendens.|Section 35-4-137 - Release of Land From Lien Upon Execution of Bond.

Section 35-4-137Release of land from lien upon execution of bond. When any lis pendens in an action or proceeding to enforce a lien has been filed and recorded in the office of the judge of probate, as prescribed in Sections 35-4-131 and 35-4-132, the person owning or claiming the land described in the lis pendens may at any time, before a judgment is entered enforcing the lien, nullify the notice given by such lis pendens by executing a bond with sufficient surety in double the amount of the fair market value of the land described in the lis pendens and as to which the lis pendens is to be nullified, the amount of the bond and the surety or sureties thereon to be approved by the judge of probate. The bond shall be payable to the judge of probate and conditioned to pay any sum of money found to be a lien against such land, up to the fair market value of the said land, said payment to be made by 12:00 noon of the day and at the place appointed for the sale thereof. When said bond has been taken and approved by the judge of probate, he shall make a notation of the same on the margin of the record of the lis pendens and on the margin of the record of the lien referred to in said lis pendens. If the makers of such bond do not make payment according to the conditions thereof, the court officer advertising the sale of such land shall within five days thereafter forfeit said bond and issue or have issued from the proper court officer, without delay, an execution on the forfeited bond against all the obligors therein for the amount found to be a lien upon said land relieved and released by said bond, up to the fair market value of said land so relieved and released, together with all lawful costs, all of which shall be endorsed on the said execution. The judge of probate of each county in the State of Alabama shall keep in his office as a public record a suitable book, appropriately designated, in which all such bonds shall be recorded and properly indexed. The judge of probate, for the services required of him, shall receive a fee of $1.00 for approving the said bond and $.15 per 100 words for recording said bond, which fee shall be paid by the person filing the same. (Acts 1931, No. 701, p. 826; Code 1940, T. 47, §74; Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 181, p. 4441, §5.)
AL Code § 35-4-138 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 4 - Lis Pendens.|Section 35-4-138 - Fees for Recording Notice.

Section 35-4-138Fees for recording notice. The judge of probate, for the services required of him, shall receive a fee of $.15 for each 100 words for recording such notice, which fee shall be paid by the person filing the same. (Acts 1915, No. 77, p. 122; Code 1923, §6885; Code 1940, T. 47, §73.)
AL Code § 35-4-139 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 4 - Lis Pendens.|Section 35-4-139 - Liability of Judges and Officers on Bonds.

Section 35-4-139Liability of judges and officers on bonds. If any judge of probate shall fail to perform any of the duties required of him by this article, he shall be liable on his official bond to any party injured for all damages he may sustain; and, if any sheriff, constable, marshal, or other officer shall fail to file the notice provided for in this article, upon the levy by him of any process on real estate, he shall be liable on his bond for all damages resulting therefrom. (Acts 1915, No. 77, p. 122; Code 1923, §6883; Code 1940, T. 47, §71.)
AL Code § 35-4-150 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 5 - Reformation of Deeds, Mortgages, and Conveyances.|Section 35-4-150 - Civil Action for Reformation of Conveyances Containing Erroneous Description.

Section 35-4-150Civil action for reformation of conveyances containing erroneous description. Any person claiming title to land directly or remotely from the grantee in a deed, mortgage, or other conveyance containing an erroneous description, may maintain a civil action in a circuit court for the reformation of such deed, mortgage, or other conveyance and shall be entitled to relief in all cases in which the grantee in the deed, mortgage, or other conveyance containing an erroneous description would be entitled to relief. (Acts 1911, No. 227, p. 199; Code 1923, §6960; Code 1940, T. 47, §133.)
AL Code § 35-4-151 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 5 - Reformation of Deeds, Mortgages, and Conveyances.|Section 35-4-151 - Error in Any Description Sufficient to Maintain Civil Action.

Section 35-4-151Error in any description sufficient to maintain civil action. In order to authorize a person claiming title under the grantee in a deed, mortgage, or other conveyance containing an erroneous description to maintain a civil action for the reformation of the same, it shall not be necessary that there shall be any error in description in all the conveyances constituting the chain of title from the grantor in the conveyance containing the erroneous description to the complainant; but, if it shall reasonably appear that it was the purpose or intention of each grantor to convey the land which was intended to be conveyed in said deed, mortgage or other conveyance containing the erroneous description, the complainant shall be entitled to a reformation of such deed, mortgage, or other conveyance. (Acts 1911, No. 227, p. 199; Code 1923, §6961; Code 1940, T. 47, §134.)
AL Code § 35-4-152 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 5 - Reformation of Deeds, Mortgages, and Conveyances.|Section 35-4-152 - Grantors, etc., May Be Made Parties Defendant.

Section 35-4-152Grantors, etc., may be made parties defendant. The grantors in any number of conveyances in the chain of title of the complainant may be made parties defendant to the civil action for the reformation of the description in any one or more of such conveyances, and the joining of the grantors in several conveyances in the chain of title shall not make the complaint multifarious or objectionable by reason of the misjoinder of parties defendant. (Acts 1911, No. 227, p. 199; Code 1923, §6962; Code 1940, T. 47, §135.)
AL Code § 35-4-153 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 5 - Reformation of Deeds, Mortgages, and Conveyances.|Section 35-4-153 - Fraud or Mistake.

Section 35-4-153Fraud or mistake. When, through fraud, or a mutual mistake of the parties, or a mistake of one party which the other at the time knew or suspected, a deed, mortgage, or other conveyance does not truly express the intention of the parties, it may be revised by a court on the application of the party aggrieved so as to express that intention, insofar as this can be done without prejudice to rights acquired by third persons in good faith and for value. (Code 1923, §6825; Code 1940, T. 47, §136.)
AL Code § 35-4-170 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 6 - Life Estates.|Section 35-4-170 - Remainders Not Defeated by Acts of Life Tenants.

Section 35-4-170Remainders not defeated by acts of life tenants. No estate or interest of any person can be defeated, discontinued, or extinguished by the act of any third person having a possessory or ulterior interest, except in the cases especially provided by this Code. (Code 1852, §1305; Code 1867, §1575; Code 1876, §2184; Code 1886, §1830; Code 1896, §1026; Code 1907, §3406; Code 1923, §6910; Code 1940, T. 47, §63.)
AL Code § 35-4-171 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 6 - Life Estates.|Section 35-4-171 - Removal of Personalty.

Section 35-4-171Removal of personalty. The tenant for life in personalty cannot remove it beyond the jurisdiction of this state without the consent of the remainderman. If he attempts to do so, the remainderman or reversioner is entitled to the writ of ne exeat to restrain him. (Code 1907, §3407; Code 1923, §6911; Code 1940, T. 47, §64.)
AL Code § 35-4-190 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 35 - Property.|Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.|Article 7 - Ascertainment and Payment of Life or Dower Interests.|Section 35-4-190 - Duty of Court to Ascertain Present Value and Make Payment.

Section 35-4-190Duty of court to ascertain present value and make payment. Excepting in cases where the dower interest of the widow of a decedent is sold during process of administration of such decedent's estate, in all cases where lands are sold for division among joint owners or tenants in common and where lands are taken under the power of eminent domain, and one or more persons own a dower or life interest in the whole or in an undivided interest in such lands, the court having jurisdiction of the action in which such lands are sold or taken, as aforesaid, after the proceeds are paid into court, shall, upon the sworn application of any person owning such dower interest or life interest, or any remainder or reversionary interest therein, ascertain the present value of such dower or life estate and pay to the owner of such dower or life interest in cash the value of such interest, the remainder to be paid to the reversioners or remaindermen. (Acts 1945, No. 446, p. 684, §1.)