Seven-Year Period Runs From Time Right Accrued — Extent of Possession

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Limitation of Actions
4. Limitation of Real Actions
5. Seven-Year Period Runs From Time Right Accrued — Extent of Possession

1. No person or anyone claiming under such person shall have any action, either at law or in equity, for the recovery of any lands, tenements or hereditaments, but within seven (7) years after the right of action accrued.
2. No possession of lands, tenements or hereditaments shall be deemed to extend beyond the actual possession of an adverse holder until the muniment of title, if any, under which such adverse holder claims such lands, tenements or hereditaments is duly recorded in the county in which the lands are located.

Code 1858, § 2765 (deriv. Acts 1819, ch. 28, § 2); Shan., § 4458; Code 1932, § 8584; mod. C. Supp. 1950, § 8584; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 28-203.

Cross-References. See case notes under §§28-2-101,28-2-102.

Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 1 Tenn. Juris., Acknowledgments, § 6; 1 Tenn. Juris., Advancements, § 5; 1 Tenn. Juris., Adverse Possession, §§ 3, 9, 14, 15, 17, 18, 22, 25, 30, 32, 36, 37, 38, 41, 43, 53, 56, 58, 60, 63; 14 Tenn. Juris., Gifts, § 9; 16 Tenn. Juris., Judgments and Decrees, § 30; 18 Tenn. Juris., Liens, § 10; 21 Tenn. Juris., Private Ways, §§ 3, 6.

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.

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

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

Nuisances — Permanent Injury — Limitations of Actions, 28 Tenn. L. Rev. 433.

Real Property — 1960 Tennessee Survey (Thomas G. Roady, Jr.), 13 Vand. L. Rev. 1241.

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

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