Section 6-5-280 Breach of contract – Limitation on actions. If a contract is entire, only one action can be commenced for breach thereof; but if it is severable or if the breaches occur at successive periods in an entire contract, as where money is to be paid by installments, an action will lie for each […]
Section 6-5-281 Breach of contract – Successive actions. Successive actions may be maintained upon the same contract or transaction whenever, after the former action, a new claim arises therefrom. (Code 1852, §2232; Code 1867, §2634; Code 1876, §2983; Code 1886, §2669; Code 1896, §34; Code 1907, §2494; Code 1923, §5706; Code 1940, T. 7, §133.)
Section 6-5-282 Breach of contract – Ratable compensation for services. When a person contracts for the performance of services by himself for a stipulated period of time and is prevented from full performance of the contract by sickness or death, he or his personal representative, as the case may be, may recover a ratable compensation […]
Section 6-5-283 Joint obligations and promises. 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 […]
Section 6-5-284 Instrument lost or destroyed by theft, etc.; evidence of loss, destruction and contents; execution bond. (a) In an action commenced on a bond, note, bill of exchange, or other instrument which has been lost or destroyed by theft or otherwise, if affidavit is made by the plaintiff of such loss or destruction and […]
Section 6-5-285 Holder of worthless check, draft, or order. The holder of a worthless check, draft, or order for the payment of money shall have a right of action against the person who unlawfully made, uttered, or delivered the same to him or to his endorser; and such action may be maintained though there has […]
Section 6-5-286 Defenses to actions on promissory notes, bonds, or other contracts. Except as may be otherwise provided by the Uniform Commercial Code, actions on promissory notes, bonds, or other contracts, express or implied, for the payment of money are subject to any defense the payor, obligor, or debtor had against the payee, obligee, or […]
Section 6-5-287 Impeachment of or inquiry into consideration of sealed instruments. A defendant may, by affirmative defense, impeach or inquire into the consideration of a sealed instrument in the same manner as if it had not been sealed. (Code 1852, §2230; Code 1867, §2632; Code 1876, §2981; Code 1886, §2667; Code 1896, §3288; Code 1907, […]
