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Title 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL

Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS

Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS

Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS

§6712. Impeachment of plaintiff's title deeds

In all actions respecting lands or any interest therein, a title deed offered in evidence may be impeached by the defendant as obtained by fraud, where the grantor, if a party, could impeach it, if the defendant has been in the open, peaceable and adverse possession of the premises for 20 years.

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Maine > Title14 > Title14ch725sec0 > Title14sec6712

Title 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL

Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS

Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS

Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS

§6712. Impeachment of plaintiff's title deeds

In all actions respecting lands or any interest therein, a title deed offered in evidence may be impeached by the defendant as obtained by fraud, where the grantor, if a party, could impeach it, if the defendant has been in the open, peaceable and adverse possession of the premises for 20 years.


State Codes and Statutes

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Maine > Title14 > Title14ch725sec0 > Title14sec6712

Title 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL

Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS

Chapter 725: REAL ACTIONS

Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS

§6712. Impeachment of plaintiff's title deeds

In all actions respecting lands or any interest therein, a title deed offered in evidence may be impeached by the defendant as obtained by fraud, where the grantor, if a party, could impeach it, if the defendant has been in the open, peaceable and adverse possession of the premises for 20 years.