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Terms Used In Alabama Code 6-5-283

  • 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.
  • writing: includes typewriting and printing on paper. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

When two or more persons are jointly bound by judgment, bond, covenant, or promise in writing of any description whatsoever, the obligation or promise is in law several as well as joint, and an action may be commenced thereon against the legal representatives of such as are dead, jointly with the survivors, and judgments entered accordingly.