7-3-501
Section 7-3-501 Presentment. (a) "Presentment" means a demand made by or on behalf
of a person entitled to enforce an instrument (i) to pay the instrument made to the drawee
or a party obliged to pay the instrument or, in the case of a note or accepted draft payable
at a bank, to the bank, or (ii) to accept a draft made to the drawee. (b) The following rules
are subject to Article 4, agreement of the parties, and clearing-house rules and the like:
(1) Presentment may be made at the place of payment of the instrument and must be made at
the place of payment if the instrument is payable at a bank in the United States; may be made
by any commercially reasonable means, including an oral, written, or electronic communication;
is effective when the demand for payment or acceptance is received by the person to whom presentment
is made; and is effective if made to any one of two or more makers, acceptors, drawees, or
other payors. (2) Upon demand of the person to whom presentment is made, the...
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7-3-420
Section 7-3-420 Conversion of instrument. (a) An instrument is converted under circumstances
which would constitute conversion under personal property law. An instrument is also converted
if it is taken by transfer, other than a negotiation, from a person not entitled to enforce
the instrument or a bank makes or obtains payment with respect to the instrument for a person
not entitled to enforce the instrument or receive payment. An action for conversion of an
instrument may not be brought by (i) the issuer or acceptor of the instrument or (ii) a payee
or indorsee who did not receive delivery of the instrument either directly or through delivery
to an agent or a co-payee. (b) In an action under subsection (a), the measure of liability
is presumed to be the amount payable on the instrument, but recovery may not exceed the amount
of the plaintiff's interest in the instrument. (c) A representative, other than a depositary
bank, who has in good faith dealt with an instrument or its proceeds...
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7-3-504
Section 7-3-504 Excused presentment and notice of dishonor. (a) Presentment for payment or
acceptance of an instrument is excused if (i) the person entitled to present the instrument
cannot with reasonable diligence make presentment, (ii) the maker or acceptor has repudiated
an obligation to pay the instrument or is dead or in insolvency proceedings, (iii) by the
terms of the instrument presentment is not necessary to enforce the obligation of indorsers
or the drawer, (iv) the drawer or indorser whose obligation is being enforced has waived presentment
or otherwise has no reason to expect or right to require that the instrument be paid or accepted,
or (v) the drawer instructed the drawee not to pay or accept the draft or the drawee was not
obligated to the drawer to pay the draft. (b) Notice of dishonor is excused if (i) by the
terms of the instrument notice of dishonor is not necessary to enforce the obligation of a
party to pay the instrument, or (ii) the party whose obligation is...
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7-3-416
Section 7-3-416 Transfer warranties. (a) A person who transfers an instrument for consideration
warrants to the transferee and, if the transfer is by indorsement, to any subsequent transferee
that: (1) The warrantor is a person entitled to enforce the instrument; (2) All signatures
on the instrument are authentic and authorized; (3) The instrument has not been altered; (4)
The instrument is not subject to a defense or claim in recoupment of any party which can be
asserted against the warrantor; and (5) The warrantor has no knowledge of any insolvency proceeding
commenced with respect to the maker or acceptor or, in the case of an unaccepted draft, the
drawer. (b) A person to whom the warranties under subsection (a) are made and who took the
instrument in good faith may recover from the warrantor as damages for breach of warranty
an amount equal to the loss suffered as a result of the breach, but not more than the amount
of the instrument plus expenses and loss of interest incurred as a...
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13A-9-13.2
Section 13A-9-13.2 Negotiating worthless negotiable instrument - Notice of refusal of payment
upon instrument. For purposes of Section 13A-9-13.1: (1) Notice mailed by certified or registered
mail, evidenced by return receipt, to the address printed on the instrument or given at the
time of issuance shall be deemed sufficient and equivalent to notice having been received
by the person making, drawing, uttering, or delivering the instrument. (2) The form of notice
shall be substantially as follows: "This statutory notice is provided pursuant to Section
13A-9-13.2 of the Alabama Code. You are hereby notified that a check or instrument numbered
_____, apparently issued by you on ___ (date), drawn upon ___ (name of bank), and payable
to ___, has been dishonored. Pursuant to Alabama law, you have 10 days from receipt of this
notice to tender payment of the full amount of the check or instrument plus a service charge
of not more than (fill in appropriate amount provided by...
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7-3-118
Section 7-3-118 Statute of limitations. (a) Note payable at a definite time. Except as provided
in subsection (e), an action to enforce the obligation of a party to pay a note payable at
a definite time must be commenced within six years after the due date or dates stated in the
note or, if a due date is accelerated, within six years after the accelerated due date. (b)
Note payable on demand. Except as provided in subsection (d) or (e), if demand for payment
is made to the maker of a note payable on demand, an action to enforce the obligation of a
party to pay the note must be commenced within six years after the demand. If no demand for
payment is made to the maker, an action to enforce the note is barred if neither principal
nor interest on the note has been paid for a continuous period of 10 years. (c) Unaccepted
draft. Except as provided in subsection (d), an action to enforce the obligation of a party
to an unaccepted draft to pay the draft must be commenced within three years...
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40-10-80
Section 40-10-80 Judgment when party claiming adversely to tax title has made payment or tender.
If, in any action brought to recover the possession of lands sold for taxes by or against
the purchaser or other person claiming under him, it is shown that the party claiming adversely
to the tax title, being entitled to redeem, made within the time allowed for redemption the
payment required by law for the redemption of such lands, or made tender thereof, and the
amount of such tender has been paid into court for the opposite party, judgment must be rendered
in his favor for the costs accruing after such payment or tender, except as against the state.
(Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §293.)...
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7-2-511
Section 7-2-511 Tender of payment by buyer; payment by check. (1) Unless otherwise agreed tender
of payment is a condition to the seller's duty to tender and complete any delivery. (2) Tender
of payment is sufficient when made by any means or in any manner current in the ordinary course
of business unless the seller demands payment in legal tender and gives any extension of time
reasonably necessary to procure it. (3) Subject to the provisions of this title on the effect
of an instrument on an obligation (Section 7-3-310), payment by check is conditional and is
defeated as between the parties by dishonor of the check on due presentment. (Acts 1965, No.
549, p. 811; Acts 1995, No. 95-668, p. 1381, §4.)...
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7-3-311
Section 7-3-311 Accord and satisfaction by use of instrument. (a) If a person against whom
a claim is asserted proves that (i) that person in good faith tendered an instrument to the
claimant as full satisfaction of the claim, (ii) the amount of the claim was unliquidated
or subject to a bona fide dispute, and (iii) the claimant obtained payment of the instrument,
the following subsections apply. (b) Unless subsection (c) applies, the claim is discharged
if the person against whom the claim is asserted proves that the instrument or an accompanying
written communication contained a conspicuous statement to the effect that the instrument
was tendered as full satisfaction of the claim. (c) Subject to subsection (d), a claim is
not discharged under subsection (b) if either of the following applies: (1) The claimant,
if an organization, proves that (i) within a reasonable time before the tender, the claimant
sent a conspicuous statement to the person against whom the claim is asserted that...
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7-4-208
Section 7-4-208 Presentment warranties. (a) If an unaccepted draft is presented to the drawee
for payment or acceptance and the drawee pays or accepts the draft, (i) the person obtaining
payment or acceptance, at the time of presentment, and (ii) a previous transferor of the draft,
at the time of transfer, warrant to the drawee that pays or accepts the draft in good faith
that: (1) The warrantor is, or was, at the time the warrantor transferred the draft, a person
entitled to enforce the draft or authorized to obtain payment or acceptance of the draft on
behalf of a person entitled to enforce the draft; (2) The draft has not been altered; and
(3) The warrantor has no knowledge that the signature of the purported drawer of the draft
is unauthorized. (b) A drawee making payment may recover from a warrantor damages for breach
of warranty equal to the amount paid by the drawee less the amount the drawee received or
is entitled to receive from the drawer because of the payment. In addition,...
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