Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 19-3-170 (2026)
Partition of Freehold Devised with Contingent Interest.
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When any deceased tenant in common, joint tenant or coparcener of real estate shall have devised any freehold interest in such estate to any person, with a contingent interest by way of remainder, substitution or executory devise to any other person, born or unborn, the circuit court may, on the complaint of any person interested, order partition of such estate to be made between the devisee or devisees, the surviving cotenant or cotenants and the person having such contingent interest; and the judgment shall bind the parties and the person having such contingent interest, his heirs and assigns.
(Code 1923, §10437; Code 1940, T. 58, §56.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2013–2013 · leading case: Ankrom v. State, 152 So. 3d 397 (Ala. 2013).
Ankrom v. State, 152 So. 3d 397 (Ala. 2013). “, § 19-3-170, Ala.Code 1975 (referring to “any other person, born or unborn”), and are specifically included within the definition of “person” in the homicide statute, see § 13A-6-1(a)(3), Ala.”
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