Tennessee § 66-4-202 - Sale without possession.
Full text of Tennessee Tennessee Code Annotated § 66-4-202 — Sale without possession., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 66-4-202. Sale without possession.
Any such agreement, bargain, sale, promise, covenant or grant shall be utterly void where the seller has not personally, or by the seller's agent or tenant, or the seller's ancestor, been in actual possession of the lands or tenements, or of the reversion or remainder, or taken the rents or profits for one (1) whole year next before the sale. Code 1858, § 1777 (deriv. Acts 1821, ch. 66, § 1); Shan. § 3172; Code 1932, § 7824; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-407. Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 6 Tenn. Juris., Champerty and Maintenance, § 10. Law Reviews. Champerty — Land Conveyed While in Adverse Possession, 15 Tenn. L. Rev. 719 (1939).
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Section 66-4-202 ("Sale without possession.") is part of the Tennessee Code Annotated, the codified statutory law of Tennessee. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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