Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 35-10-14 (2026)
Place and Time for Conducting Foreclosure by Power of Sale.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
The power to sell lands under this article must be exercised at the appropriate courthouse door considered the front or main door to the courthouse, of the county where the mortgaged land or a substantial and material part thereof, is located.
The sale shall be held between the hours of 11 A.M. and 4 P.M. on the day designated for the exercise of the power to sell the land.
(Acts 1988, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88-906, p. 479, §4.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 2013–2017 · leading case: Patterson v. GMAC Mortg., LLC, 176 So. 3d 845 (Ala. 2013).
Patterson v. GMAC Mortg., LLC, 176 So. 3d 845 (Ala. 2013). “Further, the process entailed a receipt of bids at the courthouse in the proper county pursuant to § 35-10-14, Ala. Code 1975. Nothing in §§ 35-10-13 and 35-10-14 speak to who must perform those tasks, only what the tasks are.”
Fed. Home Loan Mortg. Corp. v. Margaret Wilson, 702 F. App'x 827 (11th Cir. 2017). “Ala. Code § 35-10-14 . Freddie Mac and Wells Fargo presented the foreclosure deed, signed by the auctioneer, which indicated that the sale was held during the lawful hours of sale.”
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