Texas Property Code Title 4, Chapter 22 - Trespass To Try Title

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 22.001 - Trespass To Try Title
  (a) A trespass to try title action is the method of determining title to lands, tenements, or other real property. (b) The action of ejectment...
• Texas Section 22.002 - Title Sufficient To Maintain Action
  A headright certificate, land scrip, bounty warrant, or other evidence of legal right to located and surveyed land is sufficient title to maintain a trespass...
• Texas Section 22.003 - Final Judgment Conclusive
  A final judgment that establishes title or right to possession in an action to recover real property is conclusive against the party from whom the...

SUBCHAPTER B JUDGMENT AND DAMAGES

• Texas Section 22.004 - Effect Of Former Law
  This chapter does not affect rights that existed before the introduction of the common law in this state. Those rights are defined by the principles...
• Texas Section 22.021 - Claim For Improvements
  (a) A defendant in a trespass to try title action who is not the rightful owner of the property, but who has possessed the property...
• Texas Section 22.022 - Writ Of Possession
  If in a trespass to try title action the plaintiff obtains a judgment for the contested property, but the defendant obtains a judgment for the...
• Texas Section 22.023 - Failure To Pay
  (a) If after a trespass to try title action a plaintiff does not pay a judgment awarded to a defendant, plus accrued interest, before the...

SUBCHAPTER C REMOVAL OF IMPROVEMENTS

• Texas Section 22.024 - Payments Into Court
  If a party in a trespass to try title action makes a payment to the clerk of a court under this subchapter, the clerk shall...
• Texas Section 22.041 - Plea For Removal Of Improvements
  (a) A defendant in a trespass to try title action who is not the rightful owner of the property in controversy may remove improvements made...
• Texas Section 22.042 - Referee
  A court that authorizes a defendant in a trespass to try title action to remove improvements shall appoint a referee to supervise the removal. The...
• Texas Section 22.043 - Retained Jurisdiction
  A court that authorizes a defendant in a trespass to try title action to remove improvements retains jurisdiction of the action until the court makes...
• Texas Section 22.044 - Condition For Removal
  Before a court in a trespass to try title action authorizes a defendant to remove improvements, the court may require the defendant to satisfy a...
• Texas Section 22.045 - Cumulative Remedies
  The remedy of removing improvements may be pleaded as an alternative to all other remedies at law or in equity. Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p....

Last modified: September 28, 2016