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26-1A-201
Section 26-1A-201 Authority that requires specific grant; grant of general authority. (a) An
agent under a power of attorney may do the following on behalf of the principal or with the
principal's property only if the power of attorney expressly grants the agent the authority
and exercise of the authority is not otherwise prohibited by another agreement or instrument
to which the authority or property is subject: (1) create, amend, revoke, or terminate an
inter vivos trust; (2) [reserved]; (3) create or change rights of survivorship; (4) create
or change a beneficiary designation; (5) delegate authority granted under the power of attorney;
(6) waive the principal's right to be a beneficiary of a joint and survivor annuity, including
a survivor benefit under a retirement plan; or (7) exercise fiduciary powers that the principal
has authority to delegate. (b) Notwithstanding a grant of authority to do an act described
in subsection (a), unless the power of attorney otherwise expressly...
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6-5-755
Section 6-5-755 Recovery; contribution. (a) In an action against a manufacturer and one or
more other defendants, including other manufacturers, for death or injury to person or damage
to property arising out of an accident, the right of the plaintiff to recover jointly and
severally against such defendants found liable is preserved. (b) Notwithstanding subsection
(a), in an action arising out of such accident, if the respective or comparative responsibility
of tortfeasors is an issue, then the jury shall return special verdicts, or in the absence
of a jury the court shall make special findings, allocating the percentage of responsibility
attributable to each defendant found to have proximately caused the accident. (c) Responsibility
for the accident may be allocated to a nonparty in an action under the procedure described
in subsection (b) if each of the following requirements are satisfied: (1) A defendant affirmatively
pleads the responsibility of a nonparty as a proximate cause of...
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10A-8A-2.01
Section 10A-8A-2.01 Formation of partnership. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection
(b), the association of two or more persons: (1) to carry on as co-owners a business for profit
forms a partnership, whether or not the persons intend to form a partnership; or (2) to carry
on any not for profit activity, forms a partnership when (A) the persons intend to form a
partnership and (B) the persons deliver to the Secretary of State for filing a statement of
not for profit partnership in accordance with Section 10A-8A-2.02(b) setting forth their intention
to form a partnership to carry on a not for profit activity. (b) An association formed under
a statute other than this chapter, a predecessor statute, or a comparable statute of another
jurisdiction is not a partnership under this chapter. (c) In determining whether a partnership
is formed under Section 10A-8A-2.01(a)(1), the following rules apply: (1) Joint tenancy, tenancy
in common, tenancy by the entireties, joint property,...
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37-9-27
Section 37-9-27 Air carriers to file tariff of rates, fares and charges; rejection of tariff
and consequences thereof; refunds or remittances of rates, fares and charges; changes in rates,
fares and charges; filing of divisions of joint rates, fares and charges. (a) Every common
carrier by aircraft shall file with the commission, print and make available to the public,
tariffs showing all the rates, fares and charges for the intrastate transportation of persons
or property within the state between points served by it, and between points served by it
and points served by any other common carriers when through intrastate service and rates have
been established, and all classifications, rules, regulations, practices and services in connection
with such transportation. (b) Every contract carrier by aircraft shall file with the commission,
print and make available to the public, tariffs showing all minimum rates, fares and charges
for the intrastate transportation of persons or property...
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43-8-70
Section 43-8-70 Right of surviving spouse to elective share. (a) If a married person domiciled
in this state dies, the surviving spouse has a right of election to take an elective share
of the estate. The elective share shall be the lesser of: (1) All of the estate of the deceased
reduced by the value of the surviving spouse's separate estate; or (2) One-third of the estate
of the deceased. (b) The "separate estate" of the surviving spouse shall include:
(1) All property which immediately after the death of the decedent is owned by the spouse
outright or in fee simple absolute; (2) All legal and equitable interests in property the
possession or enjoyment of which are acquired only by surviving the decedent; and (3) All
income and other beneficial interests: a. Under a trust; b. In proceeds of insurance on the
life of the decedent; and c. Under any broad-based nondiscriminatory pension, profit-sharing,
stock bonus, deferred compensation, disability, death benefit or other such plan...
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5-24-1
Section 5-24-1 Definitions. In this chapter: (1) ACCOUNT means a contract of deposit between
a depositor and a financial institution, and includes a checking account, savings account,
time deposit, certificate of deposit, and share account. (2) AGENT means a person authorized
to make account transactions for a party. (3) BENEFICIARY means a person named as one to whom
sums on deposit in an account are payable on request after death of all parties or for whom
a party is named as trustee. (4) DEVISEE means any person designated in a will to receive
a testamentary disposition of real or personal property. (5) FINANCIAL INSTITUTION means an
organization authorized to do business under state or federal laws relating to financial institutions,
and includes a bank, trust company, savings bank, building and loan association, savings and
loan company or association, and credit union. (6) HEIRS means those persons, including surviving
spouse, who are entitled under the statutes of intestate...
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6-5-272
Section 6-5-272 Conviction or plea of guilty not prerequisite to suit; letter of demand for
remittance. (a) A conviction or a plea of guilty to the criminal offense of theft of property
as defined in Title 13A, Chapter 8, is not a prerequisite to the bringing of a civil suit,
obtaining a judgment, or collecting that judgment under this article. (b) The fact that a
merchant may bring a civil action against an individual as provided in this article shall
not limit the right of the merchant to demand, in writing as set out in subsection (c) below,
that a person who is liable for damages and penalties under this article remit the damages
and penalties prior to the consideration of the commencement of any legal action. (c) The
demand letter must be prepared and include the following: On (insert date), you were apprehended
for taking possession of, without paying for, merchandise belonging to (name of retailer/merchant).
Under Alabama statute, a retailer/merchant is granted a civil cause of...
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43-2-696
Section 43-2-696 Effect of transfer pursuant to affidavit. The person making payment, delivery,
transfer or issuance of personal property or evidence thereof pursuant to the affidavit prescribed
in section 43-2-694 shall be discharged and released to the same extent as if made to a personal
representative of the decedent, and he shall not be required to see the application thereof
or to inquire into the truth of any statement in the affidavit if made by any other person.
If any person to whom such affidavit is delivered refuses to pay, deliver, transfer or issue
any personal property or evidence thereof, it may be recovered or its payment, delivery, transfer
or issuance compelled in an action brought for such purpose by or on behalf of the person
entitled thereto under sections 43-2-692 and 43-2-695 upon proof of the defeasible right declared
by such sections. Any person to whom payment, delivery, transfer or issuance is made shall
be answerable and accountable therefor to any personal...
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27-42-12
Section 27-42-12 Exhaustion of rights; nonduplication of recovery. (a) Any person having a
claim under an insurance policy, whether or not it is a policy issued by a member insurer,
where the claim under the other policy arises from the same facts, injury, or loss that gave
rise to the covered claim against the association, shall be required first to exhaust all
coverage provided by any such policy. Any amount payable on a covered claim under this chapter
shall be reduced by the full applicable limits stated in the other insurance policy and the
association shall receive a full credit for the stated limits, or, where there are no applicable
stated limits, the claim shall be reduced by the total recovery. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
no person shall be required to exhaust any right under the policy of an insolvent insurer.
(1) A claim under a policy providing liability coverage to a person who may be jointly and
severally liable with, or a joint tortfeasor with, the person covered...
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30-4-17
Section 30-4-17 Revocation of certain transferable interests in property upon divorce or annulment.
(a) In this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) DISPOSITION OR APPOINTMENT
OF PROPERTY. Includes a transfer of an item of property or any other benefit to a beneficiary
designated in a governing instrument. (2) DIVORCE or ANNULMENT. Any divorce or annulment,
or any dissolution or declaration of invalidity of a marriage, that would exclude the spouse
as a surviving spouse within the meaning of Section 43-8-252. A decree of separation that
does not terminate the status of husband and wife is not a divorce for purposes of this section.
(3) DIVORCED INDIVIDUAL. An individual whose marriage has been terminated by divorce or annulment.
(4) GOVERNING INSTRUMENT. An instrument executed by the divorced individual before the divorce
or annulment of his or her marriage to his or her former spouse. (5) RELATIVE OF THE DIVORCED
INDIVIDUAL'S FORMER SPOUSE. An individual who...
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