Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 12-21-101 (2026)
Certified Registers of Marriages, Births, and Deaths.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
Registers of marriages, births and deaths, kept in pursuance of law or any rule of a church or religious society may be certified by the custodian thereof and, when so certified, are presumptive evidence of the facts therein stated as well as of the law or rule in pursuance of which such registry was made and of the authority to certify the same.
(Code 1852, §2300; Code 1867, §2702; Code 1876, §3056; Code 1886, §2780; Code 1896, §1811; Code 1907, §3978; Code 1923, §7674; Code 1940, T. 7, §386.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1993–2021 · leading case: Easterwood v. Husqvarna Prof'l Prods., Inc. (M.D. Ala. 2021).
Easterwood v. Husqvarna Prof'l Prods., Inc. (M.D. Ala. 2021). “The parties should identify and specifically cite any sources that answer (1) whether a cause of death is a “fact[]” within the meaning of Alabama Code § 12-21-101 and (2) whether § 12-21-101 is substantive state law that applies in federal court.”
Mayben v. State, 629 So. 2d 723 (Ala. Crim. App. 1993). “” We also held in Lowery that, under what is now § 12-21-101, “a certified copy of a death certificate cannot be used alone to prove the cause of death as alleged in a murder indictment where the physician attending the deceased at the time of his death, and who signed the death…”
Staten v. Chubb Grp. Ins. (N.D. Ala. 2021). “at 26 (quoting Ala. Code § 12-21-101 ) (alterations accepted).”
Moody v. Physicians Mut. Ins. Co. (S.D. Ala. 2018). “” Ala. Code § 12-21-101 . 8 After the motion for summary judgment was filed, the Magistrate Judge granted Defendant’s motion to strike Mr.”
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