Terms Used In Alabama Code 11-51-24

  • circuit: means judicial circuit. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

Upon such tender by the person offering to redeem the property and the payment thereof to the purchaser or the deposit of the sum due to the purchaser with the treasurer, the deed executed by the register or clerk of the circuit court shall be void and, upon a refusal of the purchaser or his vendee to reconvey to the party redeeming, the council or other governing body may authorize a deed to be made to the party redeeming, which shall convey all title the city or town or the purchaser derived at such tax sale, but the interest of the owner of the property and the interest of the party redeeming shall be adjusted between the parties as are other legal and equitable interests.