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14-90-1409. Trial, decree, and sale generally.
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14-90-1409. Trial, decree, and sale generally.
(a)(1) Under this subchapter, a suit shall stand for trial at the first term of court, or adjourned day of court, after the complaint is filed, if the four (4) weeks shall expire either before the first day of the term or during the term of court to which the suits are brought, respectively, unless a continuance is granted for good cause shown, within the discretion of the court.
(2) A continuance for good cause shown may be granted as to a part of the lands or defendants without affecting the duty of the court to dispose finally of the others as to whom no continuance may be granted.
(b)(1) In all cases where notice has been properly given as prescribed in § 14-90-1408 and where no answer has been filed, or, if filed, and the cause decided for the plaintiff, the court, by its decree, shall grant the relief as requested in the complaint and shall direct the commissioner to sell the lands, lots, blocks, or parcels of land, or railroad tracks and rights-of-way described in the complaint at the courthouse door of the county where the decree is entered, at public outcry, to the highest and best bidder, for cash in hand, after having first advertised the sale. This advertisement may include all the different properties described in the decree. It shall be published weekly for two (2) weeks, consecutively, in some newspaper published in the county, or, if there is no such newspaper, the advertisement may be published in some newspaper published in an adjoining county.
(2) If all the lands, lots, blocks, or parcels of land, or railroad tracks and rights-of-way are not sold on the day as advertised, the sale shall continue, from day to day, until completed.
(c) The commissioner shall, by proper deed, convey to the purchas
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-90-1409
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14-90-1409. Trial, decree, and sale generally.
(a)(1) Under this subchapter, a suit shall stand for trial at the first term of court, or adjourned day of court, after the complaint is filed, if the four (4) weeks shall expire either before the first day of the term or during the term of court to which the suits are brought, respectively, unless a continuance is granted for good cause shown, within the discretion of the court.
(2) A continuance for good cause shown may be granted as to a part of the lands or defendants without affecting the duty of the court to dispose finally of the others as to whom no continuance may be granted.
(b)(1) In all cases where notice has been properly given as prescribed in § 14-90-1408 and where no answer has been filed, or, if filed, and the cause decided for the plaintiff, the court, by its decree, shall grant the relief as requested in the complaint and shall direct the commissioner to sell the lands, lots, blocks, or parcels of land, or railroad tracks and rights-of-way described in the complaint at the courthouse door of the county where the decree is entered, at public outcry, to the highest and best bidder, for cash in hand, after having first advertised the sale. This advertisement may include all the different properties described in the decree. It shall be published weekly for two (2) weeks, consecutively, in some newspaper published in the county, or, if there is no such newspaper, the advertisement may be published in some newspaper published in an adjoining county.
(2) If all the lands, lots, blocks, or parcels of land, or railroad tracks and rights-of-way are not sold on the day as advertised, the sale shall continue, from day to day, until completed.
(c) The commissioner shall, by proper deed, convey to the purchaser the lands, lots, blocks, or parcels of land, and railroad tracks and rights-of-way so sold, and the title to the property shall thereupon become vested in the purchaser as against all others whomsoever, saving to infants and to insane persons having no guardian or curators the right they now have by law to appear and contest the proceedings within three (3) years after their disabilities are removed.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
14-90-1408. Publication of notice.
(a)(1) The warning order or notice of the pendency of a suit under this subchapter shall be given by publication weekly for two (2) weeks before judgment is entered for the sale of the lands, lots, blocks, or parcels of land, or railroad tracks and rights-of-way in some newspaper published in the county where the suits may be pending.
(2) The warning order or notice may be in the following terms:
“Board of Commissioners, (and name of improvement district), Plaintiff, vs. Delinquent Lands, Lots, Blocks or Parcels of Land, and railroad tracks and right-of-way, in said district , Defendants. “All persons, firms, or corporations having or claiming an interest in any of the following described lands, lots, blocks, or parcels of land, or railroad tracks and rights-of-way, are hereby notified and warned that suit is pending in the Chancery Court of County, Arkansas, to enforce the collection of certain taxes or assessments on the subjoined list of lands, each supposed owner having been set opposite his or her or its lands, together with the amounts severally due from each, to-wit: “(Then shall follow a list of supposed owners, with a description of each separate property that is delinquent, and amount due thereon respectively as aforesaid), and said warning order or notice may conclude in the following form: “All persons, firms and corporations interested in any of said property are hereby warned and notified that they are required by law to appear within four weeks and make defense to said suit, or the same will be taken for confessed and final judgment will be entered directing the sale of said lands for the purpose of collecting said taxes or assessments, together with the payment of interest, penalty, attorney's fee, and costs
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-90-1408
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 14-90-1408. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.