Tennessee § 66-26-106 - Presumption as to validity of registration after twenty years.
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§ 66-26-106. Presumption as to validity of registration after twenty years.
Whenever a deed has been registered twenty (20) years or more, the same shall be presumed to have been properly acknowledged or proved, though the certificate of acknowledgement or probate has not been transferred to the registers book, and without regard to the form of the certificate; provided, that an acknowledgment to an instrument which has been of record in the register's office for a period of seven (7) years shall be presumed valid so as to comply with the form of acknowledgments set out in §§ 66-22-107 and 66-22-108 . Code 1858, § 2084 (deriv. Acts 1839-1840, ch. 26, § 9); Shan., § 3761; mod. Code 1932, § 7672; Acts 1969, ch. 200, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2606; Acts 2005, ch. 303, § 3. Cross-References. Adverse possession under a registered conveyance, §§ 28-2-105 — 28-2-107 . Presumption as to subscription by grantor after 30 years, § 66-26-107 . Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 1 Tenn. Juris., Acknowledgments, § 20; 9 Tenn. Juris., Deeds, § 14; 11 Tenn. Juris., Evidence, § 96; 18 Tenn. Juris., Limitations of Actions, § 3; 21 Tenn. Juris., Recording Acts, § 9. Law Reviews. The Tennessee Recording System (Toxey H. Sewell), 50 Tenn. L. Rev. 1 (1982).
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