§ 30-4-31 — Conveyance of Real Estate by Husband When Wife Insane - Conveyance to Be Accompanied by Judgment or Certification of Wife’s Insanity; Conclusiveness of Judgment or Certificate

Alabama § 30-4-31

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 30: Marital and Domestic Relations
• Ch. 4: Husband and Wife
• Art. 2: Conveyances by Spouse of Insane Person

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All conveyances under Section 30-4-30 shall state that the grantor is a married man and that his wife is insane, and shall have attached to it a copy of the judgment of the court declaring the wife insane, or shall have attached to such deed a copy of the certificate of the superintendent of any Alabama state hospital for the insane, that, in his opinion, the wife of such grantor in such deed is permanently insane. And such judgment or certificate, when so attached, shall, in the absence of fraud in procuring the same, be conclusive of the wife’s insanity and of the right of the husband to execute such conveyance.

Legislative History

(Code 1907, §4496; Code 1923, §8271; Code 1940, T. 34, §82.)