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12 OK Stat § 12-1446a (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1446a. Good faith in publishing libel - Retraction - Actual damages only - Jury question - Exceptions.

|In an action for damages for the publication of a libel in a newspaper or periodical, if the evidence shows that the article was published in good faith and that its falsity was due to an honest mistake of the facts, and the question of "honest mistake" shall be a question of fact to be determined by a jury, unless a jury be waived by the parties, the plaintiff shall be entitled to recover actual damages only unless a retraction be requested and refused as hereinafter provided. The person claiming to have been libeled shall notify the publisher, either orally or in writing, stating or setting forth the particular matter claimed to be libelous and requesting that the same be retracted. If a retraction, headed "RETRACTION" in eighteen-point type or larger, be published on the same page and in the same type as were the statements complained of, in two regular issues of said newspaper or periodical, published within a reasonable time, but not to exceed two (2) weeks after such notice in a weekly newspaper, or not to exceed one (1) week in a daily newspaper, the publication of said retraction shall be full and complete satisfaction as to all other than actual damages, and the plaintiff shall not be entitled to recover other than actual damages on account of such erroneous published matter. If such a retraction be not so published, plaintiff may recover such damages as are provided by the statutes of this state, if his cause of action be maintained. This section shall not apply to any libel imputing unchastity to a woman; nor in any case in which the evidence shows the publication was made maliciously or with a premeditated intention and purpose to injure, defame or destroy the reputation of another or to injuriously alter a person's reputation; nor to anonymous communications or publications, and provided further that this section shall not apply to any article pertaining to any candidate for any public office when said article is published within three (3) weeks of the date of the primary, runoff primary, special or general election, as the case may be. |Added by Laws 1941, p. 37, § 1.
12 OK Stat § 12-1446b (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1446b. "Newspapers" or "periodicals" defined.

|Newspapers or periodicals shall, for the purpose of this act, be considered publications having admission to the mails as second class mail matter and having all the other qualifications of a legal newspaper as defined in Chapter 1, Article 1, Session Laws 1935. |Added by Laws 1941, p. 38, § 2.
12 OK Stat § 12-1447.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1447.1. Defamation by radio and television - Limitation of liability.

|The owner, licensee or operator of a television and/or radio broadcasting station or network of stations, and the agents or employees of any such owner, licensee or operator, shall not be liable for any damages for any defamatory statement published or uttered in or as a part of a television and/or radio broadcast, by one other than such owner, licensee or operator, or agent or employee thereof, unless it shall be alleged and proved by the complaining party, that such owner, licensee, operator or such agent or employee, has failed to exercise due care to prevent the publication or utterance of such statement in such broadcast. |Added by Laws 1957, p. 83, § 1.
12 OK Stat § 12-1447.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1447.2. Defamatory statements by candidates for public office.

|In no event, however, shall any owner, licensee or operator, or the agents or employees of any such owner, licensee or operator of such television and/or radio station or network of stations be held liable for any damages for any defamatory statement uttered over the facilities of such station or network by any candidate for public office, where such statement is not subject to censorship or control by reason of any federal statute or any ruling or order of the Federal Communications Commission made pursuant thereto; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that this section shall not apply to any owner, licensee, or operator, or any agent or employee of such owner, licensee or operator, of such visual or sound radio broadcasting station, or network of stations, when such owner, licensee, or operator, or agent or employee of such owner, licensee or operator, is a candidate for public office or speaking on behalf of a candidate for public office. |Added by Laws 1957, p. 83, § 2.
12 OK Stat § 12-1447.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1447.3. Damages recoverable.

|In any action for damages for any defamatory statement published in or uttered as a part of a television and/or radio broadcast, the complaining party shall be allowed such actual and/or punitive damages as he has alleged and proved. |Added by Laws 1957, p. 83, § 3.
12 OK Stat § 12-1447.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1447.4. Recordation and preservation of political utterances.

|It shall be the duty of such television and/or radio broadcasting station or network to record and preserve all political utterances. Said recording to be preserved for a period of two (2) years and made available to any person or persons instituting legal actions for libel or defamation. Any person, firm or corporation violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof fined not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) and costs. |Added by Laws 1957, p. 83, § 4. Amended by Laws 1975, c. 152, § 1, emerg. eff. May 20, 1975.
12 OK Stat § 12-1447.5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1447.5. Broadcast of truth statement following broadcast of untrue statement.

|If any broadcasting station, at any time, broadcasts, publishes, or circulates any false statement, allegation or rumor pertaining or relating to any individual or association of individuals, or to any trade, labor business, social, economic or religious organization or to any firm, corporation or business or to any public official or candidate for a public office, the said broadcasting station upon demand of any person or persons affected or their representatives, shall broadcast, without charge, any statement setting forth in proper language the truth pertaining to such statement, allegation, or rumor, which said person or persons or their representatives shall offer to said broadcasting station for broadcast. Provided, that the truth statement shall be broadcast as many times as the untrue statement was broadcast. Provided further, that the truth statement shall be broadcast at a like or comparable time in the daily routine as was the untrue statement. |Added by Laws 1957, p. 83, § 5.
12 OK Stat § 12-1450 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1450. Online impersonation – Liability - Remedies.

|A. As used in this section: |1. "Photograph" means any photograph or photographic reproduction, still or moving, or any videotape or live television transmission of any person, such that the person is readily identifiable. A person shall be deemed to be readily identifiable from a photograph when one who views the photograph with the naked eye can reasonably determine that the person depicted in the photograph is the same person who is complaining of its unauthorized use, or the person on whose behalf a complaint is being made; and2. "Social media" means forms of electronic communication through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages and other content.B. Any person who knowingly uses another's name, voice, signature, photograph or likeness through social media to create a false identity without such person's consent, or in the case of a minor the consent of his or her parent or legal guardian, for the purpose of harming, intimidating, threatening or defrauding such person, shall be liable for online impersonation and liable for any damages sustained by the person or persons injured as a result thereof; provided, however, there shall be no liability for any online impersonation for which the sole purpose is satire or parody.C. At the time of filing a petition for an action pursuant to this section, the plaintiff may request an automatic injunction preventing the continued use of the plaintiff's name, voice, signature, photograph or likeness. The plaintiff may be awarded damages as provided in subsection D of this section.D. Actual damages shall include, but not be limited to, funds spent related to counseling, identity theft or libel. Any profits from the unauthorized use of such person's likeness that are attributable to the use may be considered in the computation of actual damages. Punitive damages of no less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) per individual may be awarded to the injured party or parties. The prevailing party in any action under this section shall be entitled to attorney fees and costs.E. This section shall not apply to law enforcement agencies or their employees acting within the scope of their employment investigating Internet crimes. Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose liability on an interactive computer service, as defined in 47 U.S.C. 230(f), for content provided by another person.F. The remedies provided for in this section are cumulative and shall be in addition to any others provided for by law.Added by Laws 2016, c. 291, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.
12 OK Stat § 12-1451 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1451. By and to whom writ issued - Function.

|The writ of mandamus may be issued by the Supreme Court or the district court, or any justice or judge thereof, during term, or at chambers, to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board or person, to compel the performance of any act which the law specially enjoins as a duty, resulting from an office, trust or station; but though it may require an inferior tribunal to exercise its judgment or proceed to the discharge of any of its functions, it cannot control judicial discretion. |R.L.1910, § 4907.
12 OK Stat § 12-1452 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1452. Writ not issued where remedy at law - Information.

|This writ may not be issued in any case where there is a plain and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of the law. It may be issued on the information of the party beneficially interested. |R.L. 1910, § 4908.
12 OK Stat § 12-1453 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1453. Forms and contents of writ.

|The writ is either alternative or peremptory. The alternative writ must state, concisely, the fact showing the obligation of the defendant to perform the act, and his omission to perform it, and command him that immediately upon the receipt of the writ, or at some other specified time, he do the act required to be performed or show cause before the court whence the writ issued, at a specified time and place, why he has not done so; and that he then and there return the writ with his certificate of having done as he is commanded. The peremptory writ must be in a similar form, except that the words requiring the defendant to show cause why he has not done as commanded, must be omitted. |R.L. 1910, § 4909.
12 OK Stat § 12-1454 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1454. When peremptory writ to issue.

|When the right to require the performance of the act is clear, and it is apparent that no valid excuse can be given for not performing it, a peremptory mandamus may be allowed in the first instance; in all other cases, the alternative writ must be first issued. |R.L. 1910, § 4910.
12 OK Stat § 12-1455 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1455. Motion upon affidavit - Notice.

|The motion for the writ must be made upon affidavit, and the court may require a notice of the application to be given to the adverse party, or may grant an order to show cause why it should not be allowed, or may grant the writ without notice. |R.L. 1910, § 4911.
12 OK Stat § 12-1456 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1456. Allowance and service - Neglect to return.

|The allowance of the writ must be endorsed thereon, signed by the judge of the court granting it, and the writ must be served personally upon the defendant; if the defendant, duly served, neglect to return the same, he shall be proceeded against as for contempt. |R.L. 1910, § 4912.
12 OK Stat § 12-1457 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1457. Answer.

|On the return day of the alternative writ, or such further day as the court may allow, the party on whom the writ shall have been served may show cause, by answer made in the same manner as an answer to a petition in a civil action. |R.L. 1910, § 4913.
12 OK Stat § 12-1458 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1458. Failure to answer - New matter in answer not conclusive.

|If no answer be made, a peremptory mandamus must be allowed against the defendant; if answer be made, containing new matter, the same shall not, in any respect, conclude the plaintiff, who may, on the trial or other proceeding, avail himself of any valid objections to its sufficiency, or may countervail it by proof, either in direct denial or by way of avoidance. |R.L. 1910, § 4914.
12 OK Stat § 12-1459 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1459. No further pleading allowed - Similarity to civil action.

|No other pleading or written allegation is allowed than the writ and answer; these are the pleadings in the case, and have the same effect, and are to be construed and may be amended in the same manner, as pleadings in a civil action; and the issues thereby joined must be tried, and the further proceedings thereon had, in the same manner as in a civil action. |R.L. 1910, § 4915.
12 OK Stat § 12-1460 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1460. Recovery by plaintiff.

|If judgment be given for the plaintiff, he shall recover the damages which he shall have sustained, to be ascertained by the court or jury, or by referees, as in a civil action, and costs; and a peremptory mandamus shall also be granted to him without delay. |R.L. 1910, § 4916.
12 OK Stat § 12-1461 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1461. Damages a bar to further action.

|A recovery of damages, by virtue of this article, against a party who shall have made a return to a writ of mandamus, is a bar to any other action against the same party for the making of such return. |R.L. 1910, § 4917.
12 OK Stat § 12-1462 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1462. Penalty for refusal or neglect to perform.

|Whenever a peremptory mandamus is directed to any public officer, body or board, commanding the performance of any public duty specially enjoined by law, if it appear to the court that such officer, or any member of such body or board, has, without just excuse, refused or neglected to perform the duty so enjoined, the court may impose a fine, not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), upon every such officer or members of such body or board. Such fine, when collected, shall be paid into the treasury of the county where the duty ought to have been performed; and the payment thereof is a bar to an action for any penalty incurred by such officer or member of such body or board, by reason of his refusal or neglect to perform the duty so enjoined. |R.L. 1910, § 4918.
12 OK Stat § 12-1481 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1481. Occupying claimant entitled to pay for improvements and taxes.

|In all cases any occupying claimant being in quiet possession of any lands or tenements for which such person can show a plain and connected title in law or equity, derived from the records of some public office, or being in quiet possession of and holding the same by deed, devise, descent, contract, bond, or agreement from and under any person claiming title as aforesaid, derived from the records of some public office, or by deed duly authenticated and recorded, or being in quiet possession of, and holding the same under sale on execution or order of sale against any person claiming title as aforesaid, derived from the records of some public office, or by deed, duly authenticated and recorded; or being in possession of and holding any land under any sale for taxes authorized by the laws of this state, or any person who has made a bona fide settlement and improvement which he still occupies upon any of the Indian lands lying in this state, or any lands held in trust for the benefit of any Indian tribe at the date of such settlement, or which may have heretofore been Indian lands, and which were vacant and unoccupied at the date of such settlement, and where the records of the county show no title or claim of any person to said lands at the time of such settlement; or any person in quiet possession of any land claiming title thereto, and holding the same under a sale and conveyance made by executors, administrators or guardians, or by any other person in pursuance of any order of court or decree in chancery where lands are or have been directed to be sold and the purchaser thereof has obtained title to and possession of the same without any fraud or collusion on his part, shall not be evicted or thrown out of possession by any person or persons who shall set up and prove an adverse and better title to said lands until said occupying claimant or his heirs, shall be paid the full value of all lasting and valuable improvements made on such lands by such occupying claimant, or by the person under whom he may hold the same and all taxes paid thereon by such claimant with interest, as provided for the redemption of lands sold for taxes, previous to receiving actual notice by the commencement of suit on such adverse claim by which eviction may be effected. |R.L. 1910, § 4933.
12 OK Stat § 12-1482 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1482. Tax title, sufficiency.

|The title by which the successful claimant succeeds against the occupying claimant, in all cases of lands sold for taxes, by virtue of any of the laws of this state, shall be considered an adverse and better title, under the provisions of this article, whether it be the title under which the taxes were due, and for which said land was sold, or any other title or claim whatever; and the occupying claimant holding possession of land sold for taxes, as aforesaid, having the deed of a collector of taxes or county clerk for such sale for taxes, or a certificate of sale of said land from a collector of taxes or a county treasurer, or shall claim under the person or persons who hold such deed or certificate, or any other title or claim whatever, shall be considered as having sufficient title to said land to demand the value of improvements under the provisions of this article. |R.L. 1910, § 4934.
12 OK Stat § 12-1483 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1483. Appraisement or trial - New trial.

|The court rendering judgment in any case provided for by this article against an occupying claimant, shall, at the request of such occupying claimant, for the benefit of the provisions of this article, cause an entry to be made upon the journal of such request, and shall at once set a day for the trial of the right of such occupying claimant to compensation for all lasting, valuable and permanent improvements made by such occupying claimant, or those under whom he claims upon the premises, prior to the issuing of summons in the cause; and at such trial each party shall produce his evidence relating to such improvements, and the court shall make specific findings of fact on all matters relating to the right of such occupying claimant to compensation for such improvements, and shall find specifically whether such improvements were made in good faith and under color of title and whether the occupying claimant is entitled to the benefit of this article, which findings shall be entered at length upon the journal, and if the court shall find that the occupying claimant is entitled to compensation for such improvements, it shall at once appoint three disinterested freeholders of the county who shall have the qualifications of jurors in the cause, to assess the actual value of the improvements on the date of the assessment, of which appointment and the date of assessment all parties to the action shall have five (5) days actual notice. Said appraisers shall also assess the rental value of the premises from the date of the summons to the date of the appraisement; also the actual value of the land without the improvements; which assessments shall be made upon actual view of the premises, and said appraisers shall reduce their appraisement to writing and return the same to the court or clerk thereof forthwith; and upon such report the court shall render judgment in accordance therewith: Provided, that if either party shall at any time before the return and filing of the report of the appraisers, demand a trial by jury, the court shall at once discharge the appraisers and impanel a jury to find the facts and make the assessment of value which the appraisers were to make, which trial shall be had in open court and upon proofs to be adduced by the parties, and the trial shall be conducted in all respects as other jury trials, and the court may, in its discretion, send the jury to take an actual view of the premises. The said jury shall return their findings of value into court and the court shall then enter judgment in accordance with such findings: Provided, that if either party deem himself aggrieved by such assessment of values or findings of the court, he may, upon motion and proper showing, obtain a new trial as in other cases under the Code of Civil Procedure of this state. |R.L. 1910, § 4935.
12 OK Stat § 12-1484 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1484. Judgment for plaintiff - Execution - Bar of action for mesne profits.

|If the jurors shall report a sum in favor of the plaintiff or plaintiffs in said action, for the recovery of real property, on the assessment and valuation of the valuable and lasting improvements, and the assessment of damages for waste, and the net annual value of the rents and profits, the court shall render a judgment therefor without pleadings, and issue execution thereon as in other cases; or if no excess be reported in favor of said plaintiff or plaintiffs, then, and in either case, the said plaintiff or plaintiffs shall be thereby barred from having or maintaining any action for mesne profits. |R.L. 1910, § 4936.
12 OK Stat § 12-1485 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 12. Civil Procedure|§12-1485. Judgment for occupying claimant - Appeal.

|If the appraisers or jury appointed or impaneled as hereinbefore provided, shall find that the value of the improvements is greater than the value of the rents and damages and waste, then the court shall enter judgment that the successful claimant pay to the clerk of the court for the use of the occupying claimant the full amount of the excess of the value of the improvements over the value of the rents, damages and waste before the writ of ouster shall issue; Provided, that if either party shall deem himself aggrieved by the judgment and shall desire to contest either or both the findings of the court or the appraisement of the appraisers or the jury herein provided for, by appeals or otherwise, to a higher court, and the successful claimant shall execute an undertaking to the occupying claimant in double the amount of the excess in value as found by the appraisers or the jury, with good and sufficient surety to be approved by the clerk of the court, conditioned that he will pay such excess with interest from the date of the judgment, if the judgment be affirmed by the appellate court, then the writ of ouster shall, at the request of the successful claimant issue at once. |R.L. 1910, § 4937.