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Terms Used In Alabama Code 40-15-17

  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • 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

In the event that the estate of any decedent taxable hereunder shall include property situated outside of the state, the proportion of the federal estate tax leviable hereunder against or in respect to the property of the estate subject to the tax imposed hereby shall be that proportion which the property of the estate within or subject to the tax jurisdiction bears to the gross value of the estate of the decedent not so subject to taxation.