Adverse Possession — State Conveyance

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  1. Any person having had, either personally or through those through whom that person's claim arises, individually or through whom a person claims, seven (7) years' adverse possession of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, granted by this state or the state of North Carolina, holding by conveyance, devise, grant, or other assurance of title, purporting to convey an estate in fee, without any claim by action at law or in equity commenced within that time and effectually prosecuted against such person is vested with a good and indefeasible title in fee to the land described in such person's assurance of title.
  2. No title shall be vested by virtue of such adverse possession, unless such conveyance, devise, grant, or other assurance of title shall have been recorded in the register's office for the county or counties in which the land lies during the full term of such seven (7) years' adverse possession.

Code 1858, § 2763 (deriv. Acts 1819, ch. 28, § 1); Acts 1895, ch. 38, § 1; Shan., § 4456; Code 1932, § 8582; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 28-201.

Cross-References. Limitation of actions to test tax title, §67-5-2504.

Limitation on forcible entry and detainer, §29-18-109.

Presumption of ownership from possession of personal property, §66-3-103.

Textbooks. Gibson's Suits in Chancery (7th ed., Inman), § 177.

Tennessee Forms (Robinson, Ramsey and Harwell), No. 1-8-9.

Tennessee Jurisprudence, 1 Tenn. Juris., Acknowledgments, § 6; 1 Tenn. Juris., Adverse Possession, §§ 2, 3, 9-18, 25, 30, 32, 34-38, 44, 49-58, 60, 63; 6 Tenn. Juris., Constitutional Law, § 97; 8 Tenn. Juris., Cotenancy, § 12; 9 Tenn. Juris., Deeds, § 7; 13 Tenn. Juris., Fraudulent and Voluntary Conveyances, § 47; 20 Tenn. Juris., Partition, § 3; 21 Tenn. Juris., Private Ways, § 3.

Law Reviews.

Adverse Possession Against Tenants in Common in Tennessee (Eston Wycliffe Orr), 37 Tenn. L. Rev. 776.

Adverse Possession and the Presumption of Title (R.D. Cox), 11 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 1.

Adverse Possession — Purchaser Under An Oral Contract, 20 Tenn. L. Rev. 214.

Adverse Possession — Statutes — May One Acquire an Indefeasible Life Estate Under Tennessee Code Section 8582? 5 Vand. L. Rev. 818.

An Exegesis of the Ejectment Statutes of Tennessee (R.D. Cox), 18 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 581 (1988).

Bringing Tennessee into the Twentieth Century Re Possibilities of Reverter, Powers of Termination and Executory Interests When Used as Land Control Devices (Nicholas L. White), 15 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 555 (1985).

History of the Adverse Possession Statutes of Tennessee (R.D. Cox), 6 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 673.

Real Property (Herman L. Trautman), 6 Vand. L. Rev. 1080.

Real Property — Adverse Possession by Husband and Wife Does Not Ripen into a Tenancy by the Entirety, 10 Vand. L. Rev. 460.

Real Property — Adverse Possession — Cotenant Claims Title by Prescription Against Other Cotenants, 11 Vand. L. Rev. 645.

Real Property — Adverse Possession — Life Tenant Holding Against Remainderman, 22 Tenn. L. Rev. 968.

Real Property — Adverse Possession — Tenancy in Common or Tenancy By Entirety?, 24 Tenn. L. Rev. 892.

Real Property — 1954 Tennessee Survey, 7 Vand. L. Rev. 921.

Real Property — 1956 Tennessee Survey (Herman L. Trautman), 9 Vand. L. Rev. 1089.

Survey of Tennessee Property Law, IV. Transfers of Land (Beverly A. Rowlett), 48 Tenn. L. Rev. 72.

Tacking Adverse Possessions in Tennessee, 23 Tenn. L. Rev. 295.

The Tennessee Recording System (Toxey H. Sewell), 50 Tenn. L. Rev. 1 (1982).

Title by Adverse Possession in Tennessee, 5 Vand. L. Rev. 621.


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