§ 29-1-9. Suits for recovery of lands.
The land commissioner shall institute and prosecute, and prosecute where already instituted, all necessary suits to cancel patents to lands fraudulently obtained or issued, and to recover the possession of the land; and may, when ordered by the court, make any tender in any suit as well after as before suit is begun.
Sources: Codes, 1892, § 2587; 1906, § 2926: Hemingway's 1917, § 5261; 1930, § 6020; 1942, § 4102.