Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 16-48-1 (2026)
Body Corporate.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
The Governor and the State Superintendent of Education by virtue of their respective offices, and the trustees appointed from the different congressional districts of the state, under the provisions of Section 266 of the Constitution of 1901, and their successors in office, are constituted a body corporate under the name of Auburn University, to carry into effect the purposes and intent of the Congress of the United States in the grant of lands by the act of July 2, 1862.
(School Code 1927, §521; Code 1940, T. 52, §474.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1984–2023 · leading case: Rigby v. Auburn Univ., 448 So. 2d 345 (Ala. 1984).
Rigby v. Auburn Univ., 448 So. 2d 345 (Ala. 1984). “See Code 1975, §§ 16-48-1 through 16-48-12; see also Opinion of the Justices, 294 Ala.”
Culjack v. Roberts (M.D. Ala. 2023). “CODE § 16-48-1. And as noted above, “a suit against a state official in his or her own official capacity is .”
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