Every mechanic, person, firm, or corporation who shall do or perform any work, or labor upon, or furnish any material, fixture, engine, boiler, waste disposal services and equipment, or machinery for any building or improvement on land, or for repairing, altering, or beautifying the same, under or by virtue of any contract with the owner or proprietor thereof, or his or her agent, architect, trustee, contractor, or subcontractor, upon complying with the provisions of this division, shall have a lien therefor on such building or improvements and on the land on which the same is situated, to the extent in ownership of all the right, title, and interest therein of the owner or proprietor, and to the extent in area of the entire lot or parcel of land in a city or town; or, if not in a city or town, of one acre in addition to the land upon which the building or improvement is situated; or, if employees of the contractor or persons furnishing material to him or her, the lien shall extend only to the amount of any unpaid balance due the contractor by the owner or proprietor, and the employees and materialmen shall also have a lien on the unpaid balance. But if the person, firm, or corporation, before furnishing any material, shall notify the owner or his or her agent in writing that certain specified material will be furnished by him or her to the contractor or subcontractor for use in the building or improvements on the land of the owner or proprietor at certain specified prices, unless the owner or proprietor or his or her agent objects thereto, the furnisher of the material shall have a lien for the full price thereof as specified in the notice to the owner or proprietor without regard to whether or not the amount of the claim for the material so furnished exceeds the unpaid balance due the contractor, unless on the notice herein provided for being given, the owner or proprietor or his or her agent shall notify the furnisher in writing before the material is used, that he or she will not be responsible for the price thereof. The notice may be given in the following form, which shall be sufficient:
“To __________, owner or proprietor:
“Take notice, that the undersigned is about to furnish __________, your contractor or subcontractor, certain material for the construction, or for the repairing, altering, or beautifying of a building or buildings, or improvement or improvements, on the following described property:
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
and there will become due to the undersigned on account thereof the price of the material, for the payment of which the undersigned will claim a lien.”
(Code 1876, §§3440, 3441; Code 1886, §3018; Code 1896, §2723; Code 1907, §4754; Code 1923, §8832; Code 1940, T. 33, §37; Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 96-26, p. 32, §1.)
Notes of Decisions
Bailey Mortg. Co. v. Gobble-Fite Lumber Co., 565 So. 2d 138 (Ala. 1990).
· cites it 10× “Gobble-Fite sought a twofold recovery: it sought and obtained a judgment against Buffington for materials sold and established a materialman's lien, pursuant to Ala.Code 1975, § 35-11-210 et seq., against certain parcels of land.”
Safeco Ins. Co. of Am. v. Graybar Elec. Co., 59 So. 3d 649 (Ala. 2010).
· cites it 6× “Generally, when a person has provided labor or materials or has supplied services on a private construction project, the person is entitled under § 35-11-210, Ala.Code 1975, the mechanic's or materialman's lien statute, to file a lien against the private property and…”
Saunders v. Lawson, 982 So. 2d 1091 (Ala. Civ. App. 2006).
· cites it 8× “Ala. Code 1975, § 35-11-210, provides for two types of materialman's liens: "(1) a lien for the full price of the materials furnished and (2) a lien for the amount of the unpaid balance due the contractor from the owner.”
Davis v. Gobble-Fite Lumber Co., Inc., 592 So. 2d 202 (Ala. 1991).
· cites it 12× “On January 12, 1990, Gobble-Fite filed the present action, seeking a judgment against Lewis for the amount owing on purchases made for materials for the Davis job, and a “full-price” lien against the Davises’ property in Limestone County, under § 35-11-210, Ala.Code 1975.…”
Boyington v. Bryan, 174 So. 3d 347 (Ala. Civ. App. 2014).
· cites it 12× “Bryan next argues that he was “entitled to a judgment on his [material-man’s] lien” under Ala.Code 1975, § 35-11-210. That statute provides, in pertinent part, as follows: “Every .”
Johnson Controls, Inc. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 160 So. 3d 249 (Ala. 2014).
· cites it 6× “Generally, when a person has provided labor or materials or has supplied services on a private construction project, the person is entitled under § 35-11-210, Ala.Code 1975, the mechanic’s or materialman’s lien statute, to file a lien against the private property and…”
Pinecrest Apts., Ltd. v. RP McDAVID CO., INC., 535 So. 2d 126 (Ala. 1988).
· cites it 9× “McDavid, in selling appliances to Valley Plumbing, which was not a subcontractor, came within the meaning of Code of 1975, § 35-11-210 et seq., and thus was entitled to a lien on Pinecrest's realty in an amount up to the balance of funds left unpaid by Pinecrest to Covington &…”
Natures Way Marine, LLC v. Dunhill Entities, LP, 63 So. 3d 615 (Ala. 2010).
· cites it 5× “Natures Way Marine, LLC (“Natures Way”), an Alabama limited-liability company and the plaintiff below, appeals from a *616 partial summary judgment entered in favor of Dunhill Entities, LP (“Dunhill”), a Texas limited partnership and a defendant below, as to Natures Way’s claim…”
Lawson v. Brian Homes, Inc., 6 So. 3d 1 (Ala. Civ. App. 2006).
· cites it 3× “The Alabama statutes concerning mechanic's and materialman's liens are codified at §§ 35-11-210 through XX-XX-XXX, Ala.Code 1975.”
Valley Joist, Inc. v. CVS Corp., 954 So. 2d 1115 (Ala. Civ. App. 2006).
· cites it 4× “These two types of liens have been characterized as ‘unpaid balance’ liens and ‘full price’ liens.”
Baldwin v. Panetta, 4 So. 3d 555 (Ala. Civ. App. 2008).
“The builders sued the owners, alleging breach of a construction contract and seeking to enforce a lien on the owners’ property pursuant to § 35-11-210, Ala.Code 1975. The owners answered and counterclaimed, alleging breach of contract, negligence, fraud, breach of fiduciary…”
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