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Terms Used In Alabama Code 5-10A-8

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

Whenever pursuant to any provision of state or federal law or of any rule or regulation by any state or federal authority made or adopted pursuant thereto or whenever pursuant to contractual arrangement any bank is under duty or obligation to segregate particular assets for or towards the liquidation or discharge of particular liabilities or specified percentages of particular liabilities, such assets shall be segregated in such manner as to provide for the pro rata application of the proceeds thereof from time to time to the particular liabilities or percentage of particular liabilities for the purpose of which they are segregated without preference or priority of one liability over another and in accordance with the amounts of such particular liabilities as of the date of such segregation. Upon any receivership liquidation of any bank, the particular assets so segregated and any then remaining proceeds of any thereof shall, subject to expenses of liquidation, be distributable pro rata toward the particular liabilities or percentage of particular liabilities on account of which segregated, with proper adjustment for previous payments therefrom.