Code of Alabama - Title 1: General Provisions - Chapter 1 - Construction of Code and Statutes

• Section 1-1-1 Meaning of certain words and terms
  The following words, whenever they appear in this Code, shall have the signification attached to them in this section unless otherwise apparent from the context:...
• Section 1-1-2 Tenses; gender; singular and plural; joint authority
  Words used in this Code in the past or present tense include the future, as well as the past and present. Words used in the...
• Section 1-1-3 "Blind person" defined; how blindness proved
  (a) As used in this Code or any statute of this state heretofore or hereafter enacted, unless the context requires a different meaning, the term...
• Section 1-1-4 Computation of time
  Time within which any act is provided by law to be done must be computed by excluding the first day and including the last. However,...
• Section 1-1-5 Public offenses defined
  Repealed by Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §9901, as amended, effective January 1, 1980.
• Section 1-1-6 Certain acts or omissions not public offenses
  Acts or omissions to which a pecuniary penalty is attached, recoverable by action by a person for his own use, or for the use, in...
• Section 1-1-8 When penal acts take effect
  No penal act shall take effect until 60 days after the approval thereof, unless otherwise specially provided in the act.
• Section 1-1-9 Existing rights, remedies and defenses preserved
  This Code shall not affect any existing right, remedy or defense, nor shall it affect any prosecution now commenced, or which shall be hereafter commenced,...
• Section 1-1-10 Repeal of uncodified statutes of public, general, and permanent nature; certain statutes saved from repeal
  Subject to the provisions of this section, or as may be otherwise provided in this Code, all statutes of a public, general and permanent nature,...
• Section 1-1-11 Repealed laws not revived
  All laws and all statutes or parts of statutes which are repealed or abrogated by this Code, or are repugnant to any law repealed by...
• Section 1-1-13 Previous validating acts not repealed
  The omission from this Code of any acts heretofore passed which validated any bonds, notes, warrants, certificates or other evidences of indebtedness issued by any...
• Section 1-1-14 Classification and organization of Code; notes and catchlines of sections not part of law
  (a) The classification and organization of the titles, chapters, articles, divisions, subdivisions and sections of this Code, and the headings thereto, are made for the...
• Section 1-1-15 References to sections, titles, etc
  (a) Unless otherwise indicated in the context, references in this Code to titles, subtitles, chapters, articles, divisions, subdivisions or sections shall mean titles, subtitles, chapters,...
• Section 1-1-16 Severability of provisions of Code and statutes
  If any provision of this Code or any amendment hereto, or any other statute, or the application thereof to any person, thing or circumstances, is...

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