Terms Used In Alabama Code 40-10-30

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • 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

Such deed shall be signed by the judge of probate in his official capacity, and by him acknowledged before some officer authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, and it shall be, in all the courts of the state, prima facie evidence of the regularity of all proceedings recited therein both prior and subsequent to the decree of sale in any controversy, proceeding or suit involving or concerning the rights of the purchaser, his heirs or assigns to the real estate thereby conveyed.