Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 6-9-142 (2026)
Caveat Emptor; When Officer Personally Bound.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
The purchaser must look for himself as to the title and soundness of all property sold under judicial process. Actual fraud or misrepresentation by the officer or his agent may bind him personally. No covenant of warranty binds him individually unless made with that intention for a valuable consideration and in writing.
(Code 1907, §4127; Code 1923, §7842; Code 1940, T. 7, §554.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1983–1986 · leading case: Hogan v. Carter, 431 So. 2d 1160 (Ala. 1983).
Hogan v. Carter, 431 So. 2d 1160 (Ala. 1983). “Code 1975, §§ 6-9-142, 35-11-223(a). Under these circumstances, Carter has not established the basic element of lachesprejudice resulting from the other parties' delay.”
Cent. Bank of St. Clair Cnty. v. Burton, 485 So. 2d 1081 (Ala. 1986). “Specifically, Central Bank argues that the rule of caveat emptor, as codified in Code 1975, § 6-9-142, controls the instant facts: “The purchaser must look for himself as to the title and soundness of all property sold under judicial process.”
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