§ 1-32-207 — Conditions under which occupying claimant to be paid for improvements

(a) A person in quiet possession of land or tenement who
claims to own the land and who has obtained title to and is in
possession of the land without fraud or collusion on his part,
shall not be evicted or turned out of possession by any person
who proves an adverse and better title until the occupying
claimant or his heirs are fully paid the value of all lasting
and valuable improvements made on the land by him or by the
person under whom he holds, previous to receiving actual notice
by the commencement of suit on the adverse claim under which
eviction may be effected, unless the occupying claimant refuses
to pay to the person proving an adverse and better title the
value of the land, without improvements made thereon, upon
demand of the successful claimant or his heirs as hereinafter
provided:
(i) If the occupying claimant holds a plain and
connected title in law or equity, derived from the records of a
public office;
(ii) If he holds the same by deed, devise, descent,
contract, bond or agreement from and under a person claiming
title as aforesaid, derived from the records of a public office,
or by deed duly authenticated and recorded;
(iii) If he holds under sale on execution against a
person claiming title as aforesaid, derived from the records of
a public office, or by deed duly authenticated and recorded;
(iv) If he holds under a sale for taxes authorized by
the laws of this state; or
(v) If he holds under a sale and conveyance made by
executors, administrators or guardians or by any other person in
pursuance of an order of court where lands are or have been
directed to be sold.