Alabama Code 40-5-12. Payments by purchasers, lien holders or mortgagees of real estate
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Terms Used In Alabama Code 40-5-12
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
- property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- tax collecting official: means the elected or appointed official charged with collecting ad valorem taxes and other prescribed fees on real and personal property in the county. See Alabama Code 40-5-1
A purchaser, lienholder, or mortgagee of real estate or personal property included in an assessment may discharge the tax lien against the real estate or personal property purchased or on which a lien or mortgage is held by paying the actual amount of the taxes due to the tax collecting official of the county in which the taxes are due and payable.