§ 34-15-19. Adjudication of all claims.
Whenever in any action for partition of real estate it is alleged or it appears that any person claims or may claim any right, title, or interest in the estate adversely or otherwise to any party to the action, the court before whom the action is pending may order that person to appear and make his or her claim in writing therein within such time as shall be prescribed by the order, or in default thereof to be forever barred from all right, title, interest, and claim in and to the estate or any part thereof, service of the order, actual or constructive, by publication or otherwise, to be made upon the person as the court shall direct; and the court may thereupon proceed, and, if the person does not appear as required by the order, may adjudge that he or she has no right, title, interest, or claim in or to the estate, or, whether he or she appears or not, may itself, in such manner as it deems proper, or by a jury upon issues framed for that purpose, try and determine what, if any, right, title, interest, or claim he or she has therein, and adjudge accordingly, and the judgment in either event shall be final.
History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 265, § 19; G.L. 1909, ch. 330, § 19; G.L. 1923, ch. 381, § 19; G.L. 1938, ch. 586, § 19; G.L. 1956, § 34-15-19.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Section 34-15-1. - Cotenants of estates of inheritance.
Section 34-15-2. - Cotenants of estates for life or years.
Section 34-15-3. - Cotenants of estates of inheritance and for life or years.
Section 34-15-4. - Action by executor or administrator as tenant in common.
Section 34-15-5. - Joinder of reversioner or remainderman with tenant for life or years.
Section 34-15-6. - Venue when land situated in two (2) or more counties.
Section 34-15-7. - Notice to absent or unknown parties.
Section 34-15-8. - Notice to absentee by service on tenant in possession.
Section 34-15-9. - Continuance on failure of absentee to appear — Appointment of agent.
Section 34-15-10. - Summons of party omitted from original process.
Section 34-15-11. - Appointment of guardian ad litem.
Section 34-15-12. - Death of party — Substitution of heirs or devisees.
Section 34-15-13. - Voluntary appearance by heirs or devisees of deceased party.
Section 34-15-14. - Joint or several answers.
Section 34-15-15. - Order to set off share of party.
Section 34-15-16. - Order of sale.
Section 34-15-17. - Sale binding on parties to action.
Section 34-15-18. - Division of proceeds of sale — Share set aside for absent or unknown parties.
Section 34-15-19. - Adjudication of all claims.
Section 34-15-21. - Title vested by sale — Investment for benefit of reversioner or remainderman.
Section 34-15-22. - Apportionment of costs.
Section 34-15-23. - Costs as lien on property.
Section 34-15-24. - Appointment of persons to make partition.
Section 34-15-25. - Partition by persons appointed.
Section 34-15-26. - Notice by commissioners nonresidents and to absent or unknown parties.
Section 34-15-27. - Report of commissioners — Judgment — Recording.