§ 14-123-413 — Notice of pending suit generally

(a) Notice of the pendency of the suit shall be given as against nonresidents of the county and unknown owners, respectively, when the suits may be pending, by publication weekly for four (4) weeks prior to the day of the term of court on which final judgment may be entered for the sale of the land, in some newspaper published in the county, where the suit may be pending, which public notice may be in the following form: Click here to view form. (b) Where the owners are unknown, that fact shall be so stated in the published notice. (c) As against any defendant who resides in the county where the suit may be brought and who appears by the lists of land made by the assessors and filed in the county clerk's office to be the owner of any of the land proceeded against, notice of the pending suit shall be given by the service of personal summons of the court at least twenty (20) days before the day on which the defendant is required to answer as set out in the summons.

Legislative History

Acts 1879, No. 78, § 14, p. 117; 1887, No. 86, § 6, p. 132; 1897, No. 8, § 2, p. 8; C. & M. Dig., § 6836; Pope's Dig., § 4562; A.S.A. 1947, § 21-631.