Any such agreement, bargain, sale, promise, covenant or grant shall be utterly void where the seller has not personally, or by the seller's agent or tenant, or the seller's ancestor, been in actual possession of the lands or tenements, or of the reversion or remainder, or taken the rents or profits for one (1) whole year next before the sale.
Code 1858, § 1777 (deriv. Acts 1821, ch. 66, § 1); Shan. § 3172; Code 1932, § 7824; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-407.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Chapter 4 - Contracts to Convey Real Property
§ 66-4-201. Champertous Sales of Pretended Interest Prohibited
§ 66-4-202. Sale Without Possession
§ 66-4-203. Dismissal of Suit on Disclosure of Facts
§ 66-4-204. Bona Fide Sales Unimpaired
§ 66-4-205. Presumption of Champerty From Sale of Land Adversely Held by Another