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Terms Used In Alabama Code 11-81-2

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • 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.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • 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

Any municipal corporation in this state shall have power and authority to execute a mortgage or deed of trust upon the property acquired or to be acquired with the proceeds of a bond issue authorized in this chapter, and such mortgage or deed of trust shall be admitted to record in the office of the probate judge of any county in this state without the payment of any tax upon the debts secured thereby or any other fee or charge, except the costs of recording the instrument at the rate fixed by law.