2007 Minnesota Code
Chapters 300 - 319B Corporations
Chapter 315 Religious Associations
Section 315.39 TITLE TO REAL PROPERTY.

315.39 TITLE TO REAL PROPERTY.
When it appears to a district court of this state that, before 1907, real property was conveyed
to a bishop, or a right reverend bishop, or an archbishop, or a most reverend archbishop of any
religious denomination or church in an official capacity as bishop and to successors in office, or as
trustee under an oral or written trust for an incorporated or unincorporated body, in this state,
whether the grantee is designated as trustee in the conveyance or not, and the consideration for it
was paid by the body, and at the time of the conveyance the bishop's religious denomination or
church had its central or supreme government in a foreign country and was the country's state
church, and later the country's form of government was changed and the religious denomination
or church ceased to be its state church, and the record title to the real property is in the name of
the grantee or a successor in office, and the body, whether incorporated or not, possesses the real
property and has possessed it for ten or more years under a claim of ownership, the district court
shall, in an action brought by the body, make a decree vesting the title, both legal and equitable,
to the real property in the body. An unincorporated body must incorporate under Minnesota
law before the commencement of the action.
Actions under this section must be brought in the same way as actions to quiet title to real
property in this state, as provided in chapters 557 to 561.
History: (8002-1, 8002-2) 1927 c 120 s 1,2; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1