(a) All documents executed prior to February 12, 1879, by the Governor, in person or in his name by his secretary, purporting to convey any of the state's lands which are ineffective as patents or conveyances because of not being executed as provided by law or for any other reason and which recite either the payment of the purchase money for the lands attempted to be conveyed thereby or the deposit of a receipt or certificate of the officer authorized to receive the money acknowledging that such payment has been made shall be admissible in evidence in any case affecting the title to such lands and shall be prima facie evidence of any sale or transfer of said lands there recited and of the payment of the purchase money thereof.
(b) A duly certified copy of the record of any such document which has been recorded for as much as 10 years in the office of the probate judge of the county in which is situated the land attempted to be conveyed thereby likewise shall be admissible in evidence and shall have the same probative effect as the original document.
Structure Code of Alabama
Chapter 21 - Evidence and Witnesses.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Division 4 - Weight and Sufficiency.
Section 12-21-90 - Official Notice of Armed Forces Death.
Section 12-21-91 - Official Report of Person Missing, etc.; Presumption of Signer's Authority.
Section 12-21-92 - Secretary of State's Publication of Foreign Interest Rates.
Section 12-21-93 - Statutes of Other States and Territories.
Section 12-21-94 - Transcripts of Congressional Acts and Foreign Statutes.
Section 12-21-95 - Municipal Ordinances, Bylaws, and Resolutions.
Section 12-21-96 - Land Patents.
Section 12-21-98 - Certificates and Transcripts as Evidence of Land Title and Facts.
Section 12-21-99 - Recitals in Sheriff's Deed.
Section 12-21-100 - Judgments.
Section 12-21-101 - Certified Registers of Marriages, Births, and Deaths.
Section 12-21-102 - Copies of Letters Testamentary, Administration, and Guardianship.
Section 12-21-103 - Transcribed Records.
Section 12-21-104 - Copies of Required Official Bonds, etc., and Transcripts.
Section 12-21-106 - Official Entry on Paper as Evidence of Registry.
Section 12-21-107 - When Certified Copy Good Secondary Evidence.
Section 12-21-108 - Historical Works, etc., as Evidence of Facts of General Notoriety and Interest.
Section 12-21-110 - Receipts for Money.
Section 12-21-111 - Verified Itemized Statement as Evidence of Account's Correctness.
Section 12-21-112 - Written Contract as Evidence of Debt or Duty; Impeachment Thereof.