Terms Used In Alabama Code 35-4-56

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • 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
  • United States: includes the territories thereof and the District of Columbia. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

Patents from this state or the United States to lands in this state may be recorded in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which the lands lie; and a certified copy of such record is evidence in any court of this state.