Section 44-5-11. Grounds for setting aside grants  


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  •    Upon a writ of scire facias, grants issued by the state may be set aside by the superior court of the county where the land is located on the ground:

       (1) That they were obtained by fraud or willful misrepresentations to the officers of the state by the grantee or those in privity with him;

       (2) Of collusion between the grantee and the officers of the state; or

       (3) Of fraud, accident, or mistake by the officers of the state, which fraud, accident, or mistake was known to the grantee.
Orig. Code 1863, § 2332; Code 1868, § 2329; Code 1873, § 2360; Code 1882, § 2360; Civil Code 1895, § 3219; Civil Code 1910, § 3807; Code 1933, § 85-310.