Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 12-1487
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Sheriff's, administrator's or guardian's sale - Purchase
Official statutory text
price to be refunded on recovery of land.
Whenever any land, sold by an executor, administrator, guardian,
sheriff or commissioner of court, is afterwards recovered in the
proper action by any person originally liable, or in whose hands the
land would be liable to pay the demand or judgment for which, or for
whose benefit the land was sold, or any one claiming under such
person, the plaintiff shall not be entitled to the possession of the
land until he has refunded the purchase money with interest,
deducting therefrom the value of the use, rents and profits, and
injury done by waste and cultivation, to be assessed under the
provisions of this article.
R.L. 1910, § 4939.
Whenever any land, sold by an executor, administrator, guardian,
sheriff or commissioner of court, is afterwards recovered in the
proper action by any person originally liable, or in whose hands the
land would be liable to pay the demand or judgment for which, or for
whose benefit the land was sold, or any one claiming under such
person, the plaintiff shall not be entitled to the possession of the
land until he has refunded the purchase money with interest,
deducting therefrom the value of the use, rents and profits, and
injury done by waste and cultivation, to be assessed under the
provisions of this article.
R.L. 1910, § 4939.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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