A reasonable satisfaction may be recovered for the use and occupation of land:
(1) When there has been a demise by deed or by parol, and no specific sum agreed on as rent.
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Terms Used In Alabama Code 35-9-100
Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(2) When the defendant has been let into possession upon a supposed sale of the lands, which, from the act of the defendant, has not been consummated.(3) When the tenant remains on the land by sufferance of the owner. When, after a demise, the tenant, having had 30 days’ previous notice, holds over without the consent of his landlord, he shall pay to such landlord double the value of the customary rent of the property so withheld.(4) When the defendant has gone in possession of the land unlawfully. The owner of the land has a lien upon the same property of the defendant, and to the same extent as the landlord has under section 35-9-30 or section 35-9-60, which may be enforced by attachment as provided in section 35-9-61 or section 35-9-34, as may be applicable.(5) When for any reason the defendant is estopped from disputing the title of the plaintiff as to the use of the land occupied. In no case shall a mere claim or assertion of powers, right or title of the defendant to that of the plaintiff be a defense unless the claim of right or title of the defendant is bona fide.
