§ 28-2-111. Period of Validity of Liens — Extension
Liens on realty, equitable or retained in favor of vendor on the face of the deed, also liens of mortgages, deeds of trust, and assignments of realty executed to secure debts, shall be barred, and the liens discharged, unless suits to enforce the same be brought within ten (10) years from the maturity of the […]
§ 28-2-112. Challenge of Title of Parcel Conveyed Pursuant to Tax Proceeding
A person, and those claiming through such person, who receives title to a parcel conveyed pursuant to a tax proceeding is vested with an absolute and indefeasible title in fee in the parcel, unless a judicial action challenging the title of the parcel is filed in an appropriate court within three (3) years of the […]
§ 28-2-103. Seven-Year Period Runs From Time Right Accrued — Extent of Possession
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. No possession of lands, tenements or hereditaments shall be deemed to extend beyond the actual possession of […]
§ 28-2-104. Application to School Lands
Sections 28-2-101 — 28-2-103 do not apply to lands, tenements, or hereditaments reserved for the use of schools. Code 1858, § 2766 (deriv. Acts 1819, ch. 28, § 3); Shan., § 4459; Code 1932, § 8585; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 28-204.
§ 28-2-105. Adverse Possession — Assurance of Title
Any person holding any real estate or land of any kind or any legal or equitable interest therein, and such person and those through whom such person claims having been in adverse possession of same for seven (7) years, where the real estate is held and claimed by such person or those through whom such […]
§ 28-2-106. Action for Recovery Prohibited
Where such land or interest therein is held as set out in § 28-2-105, no person, whether upon disability or not, nor the state of Tennessee, shall commence or sustain an action for the recovery of same in any court.
§ 28-2-107. Rights Under Other Laws Preserved
Nothing in § 28-2-105 or § 28-2-106 is to be construed as affecting any rights which any person may now or hereafter have under other laws in regard to limitation of actions for real estate where the limitation is for a period of less than thirty (30) years.
§ 28-2-108. Subordinate Possession Not Adverse
Possession is not adverse within the meaning of this chapter, as to any person claiming a right or interest in the land, when taken and continued under a title bond, mortgage or other instrument acknowledging that right or interest, or when taken and continued in subordination to the right or interest of another. Code 1858, […]
§ 28-2-109. Presumption of Ownership From Payment of Taxes
Any person holding any real estate or land of any kind, or any legal or equitable interest therein, who has paid, or who and those through whom such person claims have paid, the state and county taxes on the same for more then twenty (20) years continuously prior to the date when any question arises […]
§ 28-2-110. Action Barred by Nonpayment of Taxes
Any person having any claim to real estate or land of any kind, or to any legal or equitable interest therein, the same having been subject to assessment for state and county taxes, who and those through whom such person claims have failed to have the same assessed and to pay any state and county […]