Prima facie title
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Brown v. Minor (1991)
Most recently applied in Bobo v. Jones (January 2006)
Acts 1899, No. 79, § 5, p. 133; C. & M
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
If the petitioner cannot show a perfect claim of title to any particular tract or tracts of land, it shall be held to constitute a prima facie title if the petitioner shall show that:
(1) The petitioner and those under whom he or she claims, have had color of title to the land for more than seven (7) years; and
(2) During that time the petitioner or those under whom he or she claims, have continuously paid the taxes thereon.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.