§ 508A.17 — Limitation on Actions
Plain-Language Summary
After a CPT is issued, anyone with a prior claim on the property has five years to take legal action. If they do not file a lawsuit and register a notice of it on the CPT within five years, their claim is barred. Claims that were already barred by other laws do not get renewed by the CPT process.
508A.17 LIMITATION ON ACTIONS.
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Subdivision 1.Limitation.
As against a title to land registered under a CPT which has been entered and maintained by the registrar under sections 508A.01 to 508A.85, no action affecting the possession or title to the land shall be commenced by any person, partnership, corporation, state, or political subdivision to enforce any right, title, estate, lien, or interest founded upon any instrument, event, or transaction which was executed or occurred before the entry of the first CPT and which is not set out as a separate memorial on the CPT or covered by section 508A.25, clauses (1) to (5) and (8), unless the action is commenced and a notice of lis pendens of it is registered upon the CPT within a period of five years from the date of the first CPT. §
Subd. 2.No adverse interest renewed.
Any claimant to any interest adverse to the applicant already barred by some other statute or rule of law shall not acquire any renewed rights or extensions by reason of sections 508A.01 to 508A.85.
History:
1982 c 396 s 15; 1983 c 92 s 25; 2001 c 50 s 13; 2018 c 182 art 1 s 100
History: History: 1982 c 396 s 15; 1983 c 92 s 25; 2001 c 50 s 13; 2018 c 182 art 1 s 100