Code of Alabama - Title 8: Commercial Law and Consumer Protection - Chapter 9 - Frauds

• Section 8-9-1 Mortgage of personalty
  Except as may be otherwise provided by Title 7 a mortgage of or security interest in personal property is not valid unless made in writing...
• Section 8-9-2 Certain agreements void unless in writing
  In the following cases, every agreement is void unless such agreement or some note or memorandum thereof expressing the consideration is in writing and subscribed...
• Section 8-9-3 Sufficiency of note of contract - Memorandum of auctioneer
  When lands, tenements, or hereditaments are sold or leased at public auction and the auctioneer, his clerk or agent makes a memorandum of the property...
• Section 8-9-4 Sufficiency of note of contract - Return or report of officer making judicial sale
  When lands, tenements, or hereditaments are sold at judicial sale, the return or report of the officer making the sale, showing the names of the...
• Section 8-9-5 Representation or assurance of another's credit to be in writing
  No action can be maintained to charge any person, by reason of any representation or assurance made, concerning the character, conduct, ability, trade, or dealings...
• Section 8-9-8 When general assignment or conveyance of substantially all property by debtor inures to benefit of all creditors equally
  (a) Every general assignment made by a debtor or a conveyance by a debtor of substantially all of his property subject to execution in payment...
• Section 8-9-10 Agreement in contract to forfeit right of action for not presenting damage claim void; exceptions
  Any agreement, convenant, or stipulation in any contract, verbal or written, forfeiting any right of action for failure to present to the party liable a...
• Section 8-9-11 Agreements to confess judgment, be sued in different venue or authorize another to confess judgment before commencement of action void; annulment of illegal judgments
  All agreements, contracts, or stipulations to confess judgment in any of the courts of this state, to be sued in any county other than that...
• Section 8-9-12 Realty conveyance wherein grantee agrees to support grantor during life voidable; exceptions
  Any conveyance of realty wherein a material part of the consideration is the agreement of the grantee to support the grantor during life is void...

Last modified: May 3, 2021