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Section 35-4-9 Ownership of Title Instruments

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Alabama Code › Title 35 › Chapter 4 › Section 35-4-9

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Instruments essential to the title of real property and which are not kept in a public office, as a record, pursuant to law, belong to the person in whom for the time being such title may be vested and pass with the title.

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