Okla. Stat. tit. 16, § 16-79
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Penalties for filing slanderous notices of claims - Quiet
Official statutory text
title action independent of criminal action.
A. No person shall use the privilege of filing notices
hereunder for the purpose of slandering the title to land and, in
any action brought for the purpose of quieting title to land, if the
court shall find that any person has filed a claim for that reason,
he shall award the plaintiff all the costs of such action, including
such attorney fees as the court may allow to the plaintiff, and, in
addition, shall decree that the defendant asserting such claim shall
pay to plaintiff three times the damages that plaintiff may have
sustained as the result of such notice of claim having been so filed
for record.
B. A quiet title action shall be independent of any criminal
action that may be filed against the defendant, and there shall be
no requirement that the defendant in a quiet title action be
convicted of any criminal act.
A. No person shall use the privilege of filing notices
hereunder for the purpose of slandering the title to land and, in
any action brought for the purpose of quieting title to land, if the
court shall find that any person has filed a claim for that reason,
he shall award the plaintiff all the costs of such action, including
such attorney fees as the court may allow to the plaintiff, and, in
addition, shall decree that the defendant asserting such claim shall
pay to plaintiff three times the damages that plaintiff may have
sustained as the result of such notice of claim having been so filed
for record.
B. A quiet title action shall be independent of any criminal
action that may be filed against the defendant, and there shall be
no requirement that the defendant in a quiet title action be
convicted of any criminal act.
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