Any such agreement, bargain, sale, promise, covenant or grant shall be utterly void where the seller has not personally, or by the seller's agent or tenant, or the seller's ancestor, been in actual possession of the lands or tenements, or of the reversion or remainder, or taken the rents or profits for one (1) whole year next before the sale.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-4-202
Sale without possession
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Baugh v. Novak (2011)
Most recently applied in Baugh v. Novak (May 2011)
Code 1858, § 1777 (deriv
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