Alabama is one of only a handful of U.S. jurisdictions that retains a particular common-law negligence doctrine. A pedestrian is struck while jaywalking by a driver who was speeding. A jury finds the driver 95% at fault and the pedestrian 5% at fault. Under Alabama tort law, what does the pedestrian recover?
Alabama Torts
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In an Alabama negligence action, the defendant raises contributory negligence as a complete bar. The plaintiff argues that an exception should apply because the defendant's conduct was reckless and the plaintiff merely failed to keep a proper lookout. Which doctrine, recognized in Alabama, may allow the plaintiff to recover despite his own ordinary negligence?
Question · Medium
Licensing test for lawyers that Alabama gives, made of three multistate components; its total score is reported on a 400-point scale and can be transferred to seek admission in other jurisdictions that also give it.
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Chapter 1: UBE Architecture & Bar Study Strategy
1.1 UBE Architecture, Scoring Mechanics & Jurisdiction Cutoffs
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A plaintiff sues a manufacturer in Alabama state court asserting a products-liability claim under the Alabama Extended Manufacturer's Liability Doctrine (AEMLD). Which statement best describes the AEMLD as Alabama courts apply it?
Question · Hard
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Under the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure, a defendant served with a complaint in the Circuit Court must file a responsive pleading within how many days after service of process, absent an extension?
Alabama Civil Procedure
Six-hour, 200-question multiple-choice component that most U.S. jurisdictions use in licensing lawyers; 175 of its questions count.
Alabama administers the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE). Which combination correctly states the components and weighting of the UBE as administered in Alabama through February 2028?
Exam Format
A landowner in Alabama openly occupies and uses a neighboring parcel of farmland, paying the property taxes and farming it continuously and exclusively. Under Alabama's adverse possession statute, what is the minimum period of possession generally required to acquire title by adverse possession with color of title or by statutory adverse possession?
Alabama Real Property
Component of the licensing test made up of six 30-minute written questions; jurisdictions that administer the UBE weight it at 30%.
1.2 NextGen Bar Exam Transition & Comparative Architecture
Under Alabama law, a married person dies intestate survived by a spouse and by two children who are also the children of the surviving spouse. Under the Alabama Probate Code, how is the intestate estate distributed?
Alabama Wills Estates
Swap tiles to line up three of the same term.
Term Match
Alabama recognizes common-law marriage for relationships formed before a certain date. As of 2026, which statement accurately reflects Alabama's treatment of common-law marriage?
Alabama Family Law
Two 90-minute items in which the candidate works from a File of case facts and a Library of authorities to finish an assignment set out in a memorandum from a supervising attorney.
A business is organized as a limited liability company under the Alabama Limited Liability Company Act of 2014 (Ala. Code Title 10A). The operating agreement is silent on whether the LLC is member-managed or manager-managed. Under the default rule of the Alabama Act, how is the LLC managed?
Alabama Business Entities
A plaintiff slips on a wet floor in an Alabama grocery store and sues for negligence. The evidence shows the plaintiff was looking at his phone and did not see a clearly visible 'Caution: Wet Floor' sign. The store was also negligent in failing to mop promptly. How should an Alabama court most likely treat the plaintiff's inattentiveness?
Two-hour, 60-question multiple-choice test of the law on lawyer and judge conduct, scored from 50 to 150, with passing scores set by each jurisdiction.
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1.3 400–600 Hour Bar Prep Architecture & Active Recall Strategies
On the MBE, a buyer and seller of goods exchange forms. The seller's acknowledgment contains an additional term limiting consequential damages that was not in the buyer's purchase order. Both parties are merchants. Under UCC § 2-207, when does the additional term become part of the contract?
Contracts
Flip two cards at a time to find matching terms.
Term Pairs
A homeowner contracts with a builder to construct a custom home for $300,000. After substantial performance, the builder uses the wrong brand of pipe (functionally identical) and the homeowner refuses to pay. Under common-law contract principles tested on the MBE, what is the homeowner most likely required to do?
Founded in 1931, this not-for-profit develops the multistate components of Alabama's licensing test for lawyers and provides character and fitness investigation services.
A defendant is charged with common-law burglary. The prosecution proves the defendant broke and entered a dwelling at night intending to commit a theft inside. Which element distinguishes common-law burglary from many modern statutory burglary definitions tested on the MBE?
Criminal Law
Police officers, acting without a warrant, arrest a suspect in a public place based on probable cause that he committed a felony. The suspect challenges the arrest as unconstitutional. Under the Fourth Amendment as applied on the MBE, is the warrantless public arrest valid?
Criminal Procedure
Doctrine, named for a 1938 railroad case, that federal courts apply state law outside matters governed by the Constitution or Acts of Congress, since there is no federal general common law.
Civil procedure
Chapter 2: Civil Procedure: Jurisdiction & Pretrial
2.1 Subject Matter Jurisdiction, Supplemental Jurisdiction & Removal
At trial, a party offers a statement made by a declarant who is unavailable. The statement was made by the declarant while believing his death was imminent, concerning the cause or circumstances of what he believed to be his impending death. Under the Federal Rules of Evidence, is the statement admissible?
Evidence
Find five hidden terms in a grid of letters.
Term Search
A plaintiff sues a corporation in federal court in Alabama. The corporation is incorporated in Delaware with its headquarters and principal executive offices in Texas. For purposes of diversity jurisdiction, where is the corporation a citizen?
Civil Procedure
Proper judicial district for a federal civil action under section 1391 of Title 28, such as one where any defendant resides if all defendants reside in that district's state.
A federal court sitting in diversity in Alabama must decide whether to apply a state statute of limitations or a conflicting federal common-law limitations period. Under the Erie doctrine, which law governs?
A state enacts a law requiring all commercial trucks crossing into the state to use a specific type of mudflap that is illegal in a neighboring state, effectively forcing trucks to stop and change equipment at the border. A trucking company challenges the law. Under the dormant Commerce Clause, how should a court most likely rule?
Constitutional Law
Unreasonable one of a person, house, paper, or effect violates the Fourth Amendment, whose warrants require probable cause.
Constitutional law
2.2 Personal Jurisdiction, Service of Process & Venue
A grantor conveys land 'to A for life, then to B and her heirs, but if B predeceases A, then to C and his heirs.' Which interest does C hold?
Real Property
On the MBE, a defendant points an unloaded gun at a victim who reasonably believes it is loaded, intending only to frighten her. The victim is placed in immediate apprehension of a harmful contact. The defendant is charged with the tort of assault. Is the defendant liable?
Torts
Kind of protection of the laws that no state may deny to any person within its jurisdiction.
A criminal defendant in an Alabama Circuit Court is charged with first-degree murder. Under the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure and Alabama law, which statement about the right to a grand jury indictment for a felony is correct?
Alabama Criminal Procedure
An Alabama testator executes a will. For the will to be validly executed under the Alabama Probate Code (Ala. Code § 43-8-131), how many witnesses must sign?
No state may deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without ___ process of law.
2.3 The Erie Doctrine, Pleadings & Pre-Answer Motions
Two parties form a general partnership in Alabama without a written agreement. One partner, acting in the ordinary course of partnership business, signs a contract with a supplier. Under the Alabama version of the Uniform Partnership Act, is the partnership bound?
Under the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure, which court is the general trial court of original jurisdiction for most civil actions seeking more than the small-claims limit, including equity matters?
Set of laws, adopted in every American state but not federal, governing the sale of goods, negotiable instruments, and secured transactions.
Contracts and sales
An employee is injured on the job in Alabama and files a claim. Under Alabama's workers' compensation scheme, how does the contributory-negligence doctrine interact with the claim?
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