Alabama Code 19-3-170. Partition of freehold devised with contingent interest
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Terms Used In Alabama Code 19-3-170
- circuit: means judicial circuit. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Devise: To gift property by will.
- person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
When any deceased tenant in common, joint tenant or coparcener of real estate shall have devised any freehold interest in such estate to any person, with a contingent interest by way of remainder, substitution or executory devise to any other person, born or unborn, the circuit court may, on the complaint of any person interested, order partition of such estate to be made between the devisee or devisees, the surviving cotenant or cotenants and the person having such contingent interest; and the judgment shall bind the parties and the person having such contingent interest, his heirs and assigns.