Terms Used In Alabama Code 11-97-23

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • 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.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

At any time when any corporation has no bonds or other obligations outstanding and when there shall be no other obligations assumed by such corporation that are then outstanding, the board of such corporation may adopt a resolution, which shall be duly entered upon its minutes, declaring that the corporation shall be dissolved. Upon filing for record of a certified copy of the said resolution in the office of the judge of probate with which the corporation’s certificate of incorporation was filed, the corporation shall thereupon stand dissolved and, in the event it owned any assets or property at the time of its dissolution, the title to all such assets or property shall thereupon vest in the determining subdivision.