Code of Alabama - Title 35: Property - Chapter 13 - Salvage

• Section 35-13-1 Right to take up and secure property adrift
  All property adrift may be taken up by any person and secured.
• Section 35-13-2 Appraisement and description of property
  (a) Such person must, within two days after the same is taken up, exhibit the property to the district court, and if, in his opinion,...
• Section 35-13-3 Notice
  (a) If the appraised value is over $30.00, the taker must, within 10 days thereafter, give notice thereof, once a week for three successive weeks,...
• Section 35-13-4 Restoration of property upon proof by owner
  The owner may, on notifying the taker or the person in possession, and proving the property by his own oath, or the oath of another,...
• Section 35-13-5 Compensation of taker
  (a) The taker is entitled to 10 percent on the appraised value of each bale of cotton and on other property as follows: 25 percent...
• Section 35-13-6 Fees of appraisers
  The appraisers, other than the district court, are entitled to $2.00 each, to be paid by the taker.
• Section 35-13-7 Limitations
  The owner may prove his property, if appraised at not more than $30.00, within three months; between $30.00 and $100.00, in six months; at more...
• Section 35-13-8 Remedy of owner when taker refuses to deliver property
  If the taker or the person in possession of the property fails to deliver the same to the owner on the order of the district...
• 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...
• Section 35-13-10 Applicability of chapter to taker's personal representative
  If the taker dies before the expiration of the time allowed to the owner to prove his property, all the provisions of this chapter, in...

Last modified: May 3, 2021