Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 12-171.1
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Effect of affidavit of service
Official statutory text
No judgment rendered more than ten (10) years prior hereto
against unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees
or assigns of any deceased person or, in the alternative, against a
person or his unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees and
assigns, shall ever be construed or held to be either void or
voidable on the ground of the alleged insufficiency of said
affidavit, provided the requirements of 12 O.S. 1961, § 171, are met
in such affidavit, either directly or by inference. All such
judgments, if not otherwise defective, are hereby declared valid and
legally effective and conclusive as of the date thereof. Provided,
that nothing in this act shall be construed to affect any litigation
now pending in any courts of the State of Oklahoma on the effective
date of this act.
against unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees
or assigns of any deceased person or, in the alternative, against a
person or his unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees and
assigns, shall ever be construed or held to be either void or
voidable on the ground of the alleged insufficiency of said
affidavit, provided the requirements of 12 O.S. 1961, § 171, are met
in such affidavit, either directly or by inference. All such
judgments, if not otherwise defective, are hereby declared valid and
legally effective and conclusive as of the date thereof. Provided,
that nothing in this act shall be construed to affect any litigation
now pending in any courts of the State of Oklahoma on the effective
date of this act.
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