Code of Alabama - Title 35: Property - Section 35-13-9 - Liability for concealment or destruction, etc

Section 35-13-9 - Liability for concealment or destruction, etc.

If any person conceals, destroys, injures, obliterates, or defaces any mark, or disposes of, or carries beyond the state any property taken up adrift, before the expiration of the time allowed by this chapter for the owner to prove his property, he is liable to such owner to the extent of the injury he may sustain thereby.

(Code 1852, §2087; Code 1867, §2479; Code 1876, §2875; Code 1886, §3294; Code 1896, §3537; Code 1907, §5856; Code 1923, §10170; Code 1940, T. 47, §269.)

Last modified: May 3, 2021