Terms Used In Alabama Code 24-1A-15

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

This chapter is intended to aid the state through the furtherance of the purposes of the chapter by providing an appropriate and independent instrumentality of the state with full and adequate powers to fulfill its functions. Except as expressly provided in this chapter, no proceeding, notice or approval shall be required for the incorporation of the authority, the purchase of any mortgage loans or the making of any loan to a mortgage lender, the acquisition of any mortgage, the acquisition of, or any dealing with respect to, any mortgaged property, the issuance of any bonds, the execution of any mortgage and deed of trust or trust indenture or the exercise of any other of its powers by the authority.