Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 35-11-232 (2026)
“Owner or Proprietor” Defined.
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Every person, including cestuis que trust, for whose use, benefit, or enjoyment any building or improvement shall be made, is embraced within the words “owner or proprietor, ” as used in this division.
(Code 1876, §3460; Code 1886, §3046; Code 1896, §2751; Code 1907, §4782; Code 1923, §8860; Code 1940, T. 33, §63.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1991–2011 · leading case: First Union Natl. Bank v. Lee Cty. Comm., 1090804 (Ala. 6-30-2011), 75 So. 3d 105 (Ala. 2011).
First Union Natl. Bank v. Lee Cty. Comm., 1090804 (Ala. 6-30-2011), 75 So. 3d 105 (Ala. 2011). “The Commission calls this Court’s attention to the definition of “owner” in other statutes, such as § 35-11-232, Ala. Code 1975, a statute dealing with materialmen’s liens (“Every person .”
Architechnology, Inc. v. Fed. Deposit Ins., 769 F. Supp. 1208 (S.D. Ala. 1991). “” Section 35-11-232, Alabama Code, defines the terms “owner or proprietor” as including “[e]very person, including cestuis que trust, for whose use, benefit or enjoyment any building or improvement shall be made____” Generously construed, plaintiff makes a two-fold argument in…”
Ex parte Lawson, 982 So. 2d 1097 (Ala. 2007). “Section 35-11-232, Ala. Code.1975, provides that "[e]very person .”
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