Oklahoma § 21-1836 - Filing purported conveyance without color of title Instruments clouding title to restricted Indian lands

§ 21-1836. Filing purported conveyance without color of title Instruments clouding title to restricted Indian lands

Any person, firm or officer, representative, or agent of any

firm or corporation, who shall execute and deliver, or who shall

file for record or cause to be recorded in the office of any county

clerk of any county in this state, any deed or other instrument in

writing purporting to convey any right, title, or interest, or right

to possession in and to any real estate situated in such county, to

which the grantor, or grantors, therein did not have and hold a bona

fide color of title, and any such person who shall file or cause to

be filed for record in such office any such deed or other instrument

which clouds the title of any real estate allotted to any member of

one of the Five Civilized Tribes, or to the Osage Tribe of Indians,

as a homestead, prior to the removal of the restrictions thereon by

operation of law, or otherwise, knowing the land conveyed to be

restricted homestead lands, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,

and, upon conviction shall be punished by fine not to exceed One

Hundred Dollars ($100.00), and by imprisonment in the county jail

for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days.

Laws 1913, c. 78, p. 124, § 1; Laws 1945, p. 96, § 1.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 21. Crimes and Punishments