No person shall agree to buy, or to bargain or sell any pretended right or title in lands or tenements, or any interest in such pretended right or title.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-4-201
Champertous sales of pretended interest prohibited
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Levine v. March (2007)
Most recently applied in Milledgeville United Methodist Church v. Jimmy G. Melton (September 2012)
Code 1858, § 1776 (deriv
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