Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 6-9-238 (2026)
Construction of Article.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
This article shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the laws of those states which enact it.
(Acts 1986, Ex. Sess., No. 86-713, p. 127, §9.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1995–2010 · leading case: Pope v. Gordon, 922 So. 2d 893 (Ala. 2005).
Pope v. Gordon, 922 So. 2d 893 (Ala. 2005). “Alabama Code 1975, § 6-9-238, provides that the Act "shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the laws of those states which enact it.”
Canon Fin. Servs., Inc. v. Nat'l Voting Rights Museum & Inst., Inc., 57 So. 3d 766 (Ala. Civ. App. 2010). “See generally Ala.Code 1975, § 6-9-238. NVRMI, the judgment debtor, failed to adduce sufficient evidence to overcome the prevailing presumption that the judgment of the New Jersey court was validly entered, and the Alabama court erred in entering its June 3, 2009, order granting…”
Haeuser v. Haeuser, 664 So. 2d 915 (Ala. Civ. App. 1995). “On March 28, 1994, pursuant to § 6-9-238, Code 1975, the wife filed notice of the Wisconsin final judgment in Jefferson County.”
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