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.
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