Dunlap v. Mayer’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “A valid resale tax deed divests former owners of all their right, title and interest in the land, and vests in the purchaser an absolute and perfect title in fee simple. The term “former owners”, as used in this connection, includes not only the former owners of record but also includes all persons claiming an interest in the property by prescription, and claims based upon prior occupancy are extinguished by the resale tax deed and cannot ripen into title by limitations by virtue of continued occupancy for less than fifteen years after date of resale tax deed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Krosmico v. Pettit