This part shall not prevent an absolute and bona fide sale or mortgage of lands or tenements not possessed and held adversely at the time of such sale or mortgage; nor a sale by execution; nor a sale and conveyance by a nonresident of this state, of lands which such nonresident may own, and of which lands no person, at the time of such sale, holds adverse possession by deed, devise, or inheritance.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-4-204
Bona fide sales unimpaired
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Stigall v. Lyle (2003)
Most recently applied in Stigall v. Lyle (February 2003)
Code 1858, § 1779 (deriv
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