Terms Used In Alabama Code 30-4-31

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • 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

All conveyances under Section 30-4-30 shall state that the grantor is a married man and that his wife is insane, and shall have attached to it a copy of the judgment of the court declaring the wife insane, or shall have attached to such deed a copy of the certificate of the superintendent of any Alabama state hospital for the insane, that, in his opinion, the wife of such grantor in such deed is permanently insane. And such judgment or certificate, when so attached, shall, in the absence of fraud in procuring the same, be conclusive of the wife’s insanity and of the right of the husband to execute such conveyance.