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Terms Used In Alabama Code 18-4-15

  • 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
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments. 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 state agency requiring real property in connection with any program or project shall, as soon as practicable after the date of payment of the purchase price or the date of deposit into court of funds to satisfy the award of compensation in a condemnation proceeding to acquire real property, whichever is the earlier, reimburse the owner, to the extent the state agency deems fair and reasonable, for expenses he or she necessarily incurred for recording fees, transfer taxes, expenses incidental to conveying the real property to the state agency, penalty costs for prepayment for any preexisting recorded mortgage entered into in good faith encumbering the real property, the pro rata portion of real property taxes paid which are allocable to a period subsequent to the date of vesting title in the state agency, or the effective date of possession of the real property by the state agency, whichever is the earlier.