If any person sells any lands or tenements, not having possession of them personally or by agent or tenant, the same being adversely held by color of title, champerty shall be presumed until the purchaser shows that such sale was bona fide made.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-4-205
Presumption of champerty from sale of land adversely held by another
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Levine v. March (2007)
Most recently applied in Milledgeville United Methodist Church v. Jimmy G. Melton (September 2012)
Code 1858, § 1780 (deriv
How often courts cite this section
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.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.