Okla. Stat. tit. 67, § 67-43
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It shall be the duty of the clerk of the court in which said
petition is filed, to enter, in a separate book to be kept for the
purpose, the names of the petitioners and defendants, the date of
filing said petition, and a description of all the lands included
therein, which record shall be at all times open to the public. All
lands in each separate town, addition, section or subdivision shall
be entered on the same page or consecutive pages, with an index to
said book showing on what page any such separate town, addition,
section or subdivision may be found. Said clerk shall also, in all
cases, cause publication of notice to be made of the filing of said
petition, which notice shall be entitled "Land Title Notice", and
shall be substantially as follows:
A. B. C. D. etc. (here giving the names of all known defendants,
if any), and to all whom it may concern:
Take notice ______ that on the ____ day of _____, A. D., 19___,
a petition was filed by the undersigned in the _______ court of
______ county, to establish his title to the following described
lands (here insert a full description of the lands in said
petition). Now, unless you appear at the _____ term of said court
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 67. Records Page 11
(naming the first term after thirty days from the first insertion of
said notice), and show cause against such application: said petition
shall be taken for confessed, and the title or interest of said
petitioner will be decreed and established according to the prayer
of said petition, and you forever barred from disputing the same.
______________,
Petitioner.
R.L. 1910, § 7287.
petition is filed, to enter, in a separate book to be kept for the
purpose, the names of the petitioners and defendants, the date of
filing said petition, and a description of all the lands included
therein, which record shall be at all times open to the public. All
lands in each separate town, addition, section or subdivision shall
be entered on the same page or consecutive pages, with an index to
said book showing on what page any such separate town, addition,
section or subdivision may be found. Said clerk shall also, in all
cases, cause publication of notice to be made of the filing of said
petition, which notice shall be entitled "Land Title Notice", and
shall be substantially as follows:
A. B. C. D. etc. (here giving the names of all known defendants,
if any), and to all whom it may concern:
Take notice ______ that on the ____ day of _____, A. D., 19___,
a petition was filed by the undersigned in the _______ court of
______ county, to establish his title to the following described
lands (here insert a full description of the lands in said
petition). Now, unless you appear at the _____ term of said court
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 67. Records Page 11
(naming the first term after thirty days from the first insertion of
said notice), and show cause against such application: said petition
shall be taken for confessed, and the title or interest of said
petitioner will be decreed and established according to the prayer
of said petition, and you forever barred from disputing the same.
______________,
Petitioner.
R.L. 1910, § 7287.
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