Bailey v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. ““Sec. 28. Title Acquired by Individual Purchaser. — Whenever the purchaser of any real estate sold at a tax sale, his heirs or assigns, shall have obtained a deed for such real estate from the clerk of the county court or from a commissioner appointed to make the deed, he or they shall thereby acquire all such right, title and interest, in and to the real estate, as was, at the time of the execution and delivery of the deed, vested in or held by any person who was entitled to redeem, unless such person is one who, being required by law to have his interest separately assessed and taxed, has done so and has paid all the taxes due thereon, or unless the rights of such person are expressly saved by the provisions of sections sixteen, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, or thirty-five of this article. The tax deed shall be conclusive evidence of the acquisition of such title. The title so acquired shall relate back to January first of the year in which the taxes, for nonpayment of which the real estate was sold, were assessed. . “Sec. 29. Effect of Irregularity on Title Acquired by Purchaser. — No irregularity, error or mistake in respect to any step in the procedure leading up to and including delivery of the tax deed shall invalidate the title acquired by the purchaser unless such irregularity, error or mistake is, by the provisions of sections sixteen, thirty, thirty-one or thirty-two of this article, expressly made ground for instituting a suit to set aside the sale or the deed. ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bailey v. Baker