Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 35-8A-204 (2026)
Description of Units.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
A description of a unit which sets forth the name of the condominium, the recording data for the declaration, the county in which the condominium is located, and the identifying number of the unit, is a sufficient legal description of that unit and all rights, obligations, and interests appurtenant to that unit which were created by the declaration or bylaws.
(Acts 1990, No. 90-551, p. 858, §2-104.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 2012–2015 · leading case: Bank of Am., N.A. v. Kinslow, 114 So. 3d 827 (Ala. Civ. App. 2012).
Bank of Am., N.A. v. Kinslow, 114 So. 3d 827 (Ala. Civ. App. 2012). “) The Commissioners’ Commentary to § 35-8A-204 states: *834 “1. The intent of this section is that no description of a unit in a deed, lease, deed of trust, mortgage, or any other instrument or document shall be subject to challenge for failure to meet any common law or other…”
Dorsett v. Singla, 195 So. 3d 299 (Ala. Civ. App. 2015). “Accordingly, pursuant to Section 35-8A-204, Alabama Code (1975), as amended, such Warranty Deed conveying Unit 302 also effectuated the legal transfer to the [Dorsetts] of Parking Space 115 and Storage Unit S3-G, as interests appurtenant to that unit which were created by the…”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.