Okla. Stat. tit. 16, § 16-74
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Filing of notice of claim - Disability or lack of knowledge
Official statutory text
- Thirty-year possession as deemed equivalent to filing notice.
(a) Any person claiming an interest in land may preserve and
keep effective such interest by filing for record during the thirty-
year period immediately following the effective date of the root of
title of the person whose record title would otherwise be
marketable, a notice in writing, duly verified by oath, setting
forth the nature of the claim. No disability or lack of knowledge
of any kind on the part of anyone shall suspend the running of said
thirty-year period. Such notice may be filed for record by the
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claimant or by any other person acting on behalf of any claimant who
is
(1) under a disability,
(2) unable to assert a claim on his own behalf, or
(3) one of a class, but whose identity cannot be established or
is uncertain at the time of filing such notice of claim for record.
(b) If the same record owner of any possessory interest in land
has been in possession of such land continuously for a period of
thirty (30) years or more, during which period no title transaction
with respect to such interest appears of record in his chain of
title, and no notice has been filed by him or on his behalf as
provided in subsection (a), and such possession continues to the
time when marketability is being determined, such period of
possession shall be deemed equivalent to the filing of the notice
immediately preceding the termination of the thirty-year period
described in subsection (a).
(a) Any person claiming an interest in land may preserve and
keep effective such interest by filing for record during the thirty-
year period immediately following the effective date of the root of
title of the person whose record title would otherwise be
marketable, a notice in writing, duly verified by oath, setting
forth the nature of the claim. No disability or lack of knowledge
of any kind on the part of anyone shall suspend the running of said
thirty-year period. Such notice may be filed for record by the
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 16. Conveyances Page 28
claimant or by any other person acting on behalf of any claimant who
is
(1) under a disability,
(2) unable to assert a claim on his own behalf, or
(3) one of a class, but whose identity cannot be established or
is uncertain at the time of filing such notice of claim for record.
(b) If the same record owner of any possessory interest in land
has been in possession of such land continuously for a period of
thirty (30) years or more, during which period no title transaction
with respect to such interest appears of record in his chain of
title, and no notice has been filed by him or on his behalf as
provided in subsection (a), and such possession continues to the
time when marketability is being determined, such period of
possession shall be deemed equivalent to the filing of the notice
immediately preceding the termination of the thirty-year period
described in subsection (a).
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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