66-4-204 - Bona fide sales unimpaired. - Tennessee Statutes

66-4-204. Bona fide sales unimpaired.

The provisions of 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.

[Code 1858, § 1779 (deriv. Acts 1821, ch. 66, § 1); Shan., § 3174; Code 1932, § 7826; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-409.]