Maine Revised Statutes Title 14 Sec. 6712 – Impeachment of plaintiff’s title deeds
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 14 Sec. 6712
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- lands: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
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.