“Person entitled to enforce” an instrument means (i) the holder of the instrument, (ii) a nonholder in possession of the instrument who has the rights of a holder, or (iii) a person not in possession of the instrument who is entitled to enforce the instrument pursuant to Section 7-3-309 or 7-3-418(d). A person may be a person entitled to enforce the instrument even though the person is not the owner of the instrument or is in wrongful possession of the instrument.
Ala. Code § 7-3-301
Person Entitled to Enforce Instrument.
Known as the Uniform Commercial Code
The act spans §§ 7–7 (703 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case James Graveling v. Bank United N.A. (2015)
Most recently applied in Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation v. Margaret Wilson (July 2017)
(Acts 1995, No. 95-668, p. 1381, §1.)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Alabama Legislature (ALISON). Reproduced from public-domain Alabama statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.