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2016 Tennessee Code
Title 66 - Property
Chapter 4 - Contracts to Convey Real Property
Part 2 - Champertous Sales
§ 66-4-202. Sale without possession.

TN Code § 66-4-202 (2016) What's This?

Any such agreement, bargain, sale, promise, covenant or grant shall be utterly void where the seller has not personally, or by the seller's agent or tenant, or the seller's ancestor, been in actual possession of the lands or tenements, or of the reversion or remainder, or taken the rents or profits for one (1) whole year next before the sale.

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