ALTERNATIVE PLEADINGS
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case City of Houston v. Texan Land and Cattle Co. (2004)
Most recently applied in Doan v. Transcanada Keystone Pipeline, LP (January 2018)
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3501, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff
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.
(a) This state, a political subdivision of this state, a person, an association of persons, or a corporation that is a party to a suit covered by Section 21.003 of this code by petition, cross-bill, or plea of intervention may assert a claim to the property or, alternatively, seek to condemn the property.
(b) A plea under this section is not an admission of an adverse party's title to the property in controversy.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.