Alabama Code > Title 40 > Chapter 10 > § 40-10-75 - Right where sale proceedings were defective
Current as of: 2010 If, in any action brought for the possession of land sold for taxes, the title of the purchaser at the tax sale shall be defeated on account of any defect in the proceedings under which the sale is had, or on account of any defect in or insufficiency of the process by which the owner of the land was brought before the probate court, as is provided, or in the service of said process, or by reason of the failure of the judge of probate on account of any negligence or refusal on his part to produce when called upon, sufficient evidence of the proper issuance and service of said notice or process, or by reason of any other defect or insufficiency in any of the proceedings for the condemnation and sale of said property, or of the certificate or deed to said purchaser or any two or more of said causes, the officer or officers on account of whose omission or error said defect or insufficiency or defects or insufficiencies shall have arisen, together with the sureties on the official bond, shall be liable to the purchaser whose title shall be thus defeated and to his assignees for the full sum of the purchase money paid by him at said tax sale for said property, the cost of the action in which said title failed, which the purchaser shall have incurred in attempting to maintain his title under said tax sale, together with the interest upon each of these amounts, at the rate of 12 percent per annum; provided that except as to the state, actions under this section shall be commenced within five years from the sale. Prev Next________________________________________________________________________
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