Ala. Code § 40-10-131
Neither the purchaser, nor anyone claiming under him, who may have lawfully obtained possession of any real estate purchased at tax sales shall be liable upon the redemption of such real estate to account to the owner for any rents, issues, or profits during such possession, but as to such rents, issues, and profits he shall be held and considered the rightful owner of such real estate unless such owner at the time of the sale was a minor or a person of unsound mind and had no guardian, or his guardian was not lawfully served with notice of the proceedings had in the court of probate for the sale of such real estate, in which event such purchaser or other person in possession shall be liable for rents, issues, and profits, as in other cases; but neither such purchaser nor anyone claiming under him shall have the right to cut standing timber from land so purchased at tax sales, nor shall have the right to remove or destroy any improvements on said property or commit waste until he shall have received a deed for the land from the probate judge, and anyone in possession shall have the right to growing crops planted by him.
Ala. Code § 40-10-131 (1975)