Okla. Stat. tit. 84, § 84-257
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Actions to determine persons entitled to real property -
Official statutory text
Description of parties - Publication of notice.
Where any person dies intestate possessed of real property in
this state, or dies having devised pursuant to the law of this state
any real property in this state, in terms to "heirs," "relations,"
"nearest relations," "representatives," "legal representatives,"
"personal representatives," "family," "issues," "descendants,"
"nearest of kin," or to persons by any other description or
designation which leaves at large the names or individual identity
of the particular person embraced therein, and the period of one (1)
or more years since the death of such intestate or testator has
elapsed without their having been a decree by the district court of
the county having jurisdiction to administer upon his estate,
wherein it was judicially determined who, by name, are or were all
the particular persons entitled to participate in the distribution
of such real property under such devise or the law of succession, or
where the grantees in any deed, or deed of patent made and issued or
designated as "the devisees," of "the heirs at law" or "the legal
representatives" of a named deceased person, without naming them, or
by any other description or designation which leaves at large the
names or individual identity of the particular persons embraced
therein, the name and individual identity of each and all the
persons who take or were entitled to take such real property and the
proportion or part thereof which each takes or was entitled to take,
immediately under such testamentary devise, or grant, or the law of
succession, may be judicially determined and jurisdiction thereto
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 84. Wills and Succession Page 39
invoked in the manner following: In any action which relates to or
the subject matter of which is such real property, or for the
determination in any form of any interest, right, title or estate
therein, or in which the relief demanded consists wholly or partly
in excluding the defendants or any of them from any interest, right,
title or estate therein, the plaintiff may allege, among other
things, in his petition, the facts showing such testamentary devise,
or grant of, or intestate succession to, such real property, and
(regardless of whether they or any of them be living or dead) the
names as he is informed and believes, all of the devisees, or
grantees, or heirs at law, as the case may be, who take or were
entitled to take such real property and the proportion or part which
each takes or was entitled to take therein, immediately under such
devise, or grant, or intestate succession; and he may make all such
devisees, or grantees, or heirs at law, their heirs, executors,
administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, parties defendant in
such action under the description, and have service of notice by
publication upon them under such description, to-wit: "The heirs,
executors, administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, of
__________ deceased." (Naming such testator, or intestate, or the
person stated in such deed or patent to be deceased, as the case may
be.
Where any person dies intestate possessed of real property in
this state, or dies having devised pursuant to the law of this state
any real property in this state, in terms to "heirs," "relations,"
"nearest relations," "representatives," "legal representatives,"
"personal representatives," "family," "issues," "descendants,"
"nearest of kin," or to persons by any other description or
designation which leaves at large the names or individual identity
of the particular person embraced therein, and the period of one (1)
or more years since the death of such intestate or testator has
elapsed without their having been a decree by the district court of
the county having jurisdiction to administer upon his estate,
wherein it was judicially determined who, by name, are or were all
the particular persons entitled to participate in the distribution
of such real property under such devise or the law of succession, or
where the grantees in any deed, or deed of patent made and issued or
designated as "the devisees," of "the heirs at law" or "the legal
representatives" of a named deceased person, without naming them, or
by any other description or designation which leaves at large the
names or individual identity of the particular persons embraced
therein, the name and individual identity of each and all the
persons who take or were entitled to take such real property and the
proportion or part thereof which each takes or was entitled to take,
immediately under such testamentary devise, or grant, or the law of
succession, may be judicially determined and jurisdiction thereto
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 84. Wills and Succession Page 39
invoked in the manner following: In any action which relates to or
the subject matter of which is such real property, or for the
determination in any form of any interest, right, title or estate
therein, or in which the relief demanded consists wholly or partly
in excluding the defendants or any of them from any interest, right,
title or estate therein, the plaintiff may allege, among other
things, in his petition, the facts showing such testamentary devise,
or grant of, or intestate succession to, such real property, and
(regardless of whether they or any of them be living or dead) the
names as he is informed and believes, all of the devisees, or
grantees, or heirs at law, as the case may be, who take or were
entitled to take such real property and the proportion or part which
each takes or was entitled to take therein, immediately under such
devise, or grant, or intestate succession; and he may make all such
devisees, or grantees, or heirs at law, their heirs, executors,
administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, parties defendant in
such action under the description, and have service of notice by
publication upon them under such description, to-wit: "The heirs,
executors, administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, of
__________ deceased." (Naming such testator, or intestate, or the
person stated in such deed or patent to be deceased, as the case may
be.
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