When a validly executed instrument, not properly acknowledged and recorded, has for 10 years been of record in the office of the judge of probate, the original or a duly certified transcript thereof shall have the same force and effect as evidence as such original or transcript would have had had such instrument been duly acknowledged and recorded.
Ala. Code § 35-4-72
Improperly Acknowledged or Recorded Instruments as Evidence.
(Code 1907, §3382; Code 1923, §6876; Code 1940, T. 47, §119.)
Official source: Alabama Legislature (ALISON). Reproduced from public-domain Alabama statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.