Any suit at law or equity brought for the recovery of the lands or tenements bargained or contracted for, whether the agreement, sale, bargain, covenant, grant, or promise be executed or executory, shall be forthwith dismissed, with costs, by the court in which such suit may be pending, upon the facts being disclosed.
Code 1858, § 1778 (deriv. Acts 1821, ch. 66, § 1); Shan., § 3173; Code 1932, § 7825; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-408; modified.