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AR Code § 18-60-608 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 6 - Quieting Title — Public Sales|§ 18-60-608. Effect of decree confirming sale

 (a)  (1) The judgment or decree of the court confirming the sale shall operate as a complete bar against any and all persons who may thereafter claim the land in consequence of informality or illegality in the proceedings.  (2) The title to the land shall be considered as confirmed and complete in the purchaser thereof, his or her heirs and assigns forever, saving, however, to infants, persons of unsound mind, or individuals imprisoned overseas, the right to appear and contest the title to the land within one (1) year after their disabilities may be removed.    (b) The decree shall not be valid for any purpose as against the owner of the land, his heirs or assigns, who was, at the time of the decree rendered, in actual possession of it, unless he or she is made a party to the action by personal service of notice therein.
AR Code § 18-60-609 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 6 - Quieting Title — Public Sales|§ 18-60-609. Effect of title not confirmed

 In case any purchaser or purchasers contemplated in any of the provisions of this subchapter, or his, her, or their heirs or assigns, shall not deem it necessary to use the remedy conferred by this subchapter to confirm the title thereto, then the sale shall have the same effect only as is given to it by the existing laws of this state.
AR Code § 18-60-610 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 6 - Quieting Title — Public Sales|§ 18-60-610. Costs

 (a) When no opposition is made to the confirmation of the sale, the costs attending the proceedings shall be paid by the party praying for confirmation.  (b) Where opposition is made, the costs shall be borne by the party against whom judgment is rendered.
AR Code § 18-60-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 7 - Quieting Title — Railroads|§ 18-60-701. Proceedings against railroads, their successors and assigns

 Any person owning land that is wild and unimproved or land that is in the actual possession of himself or herself or those claiming under him or her which has, at any time, been deeded, granted, donated, or subscribed to any railroad under the provisions of an act of the General Assembly entitled, “An act in aid of internal improvement”, approved April 8, 1869, or acts amendatory and supplemental thereto, or land that is claimed to have been, at any time, deeded, granted, donated, or subscribed to any railroad under the provisions of those acts, may have his or her title thereto confirmed and quieted as against the railroad, its successors and assigns, and as against any persons so deeding or claiming to have deeded, granted, donated, or subscribed the land, or their heirs and assigns, and any and all persons claiming by, through, or under them, or either of them, by proceeding in the manner provided in this subchapter.
AR Code § 18-60-702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 7 - Quieting Title — Railroads|§ 18-60-702. Liberally construed

 This subchapter shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate its purpose.
AR Code § 18-60-703 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 7 - Quieting Title — Railroads|§ 18-60-703. Petition — Verification and certification

 (a) A person may file the petition in the circuit court of the county in which the land is situated, describing the land and setting forth his or her title thereto and alleging that there is no person in the adverse possession thereof and that the land has been deeded, granted, donated, or subscribed to a railroad under the provisions of the acts mentioned in § 18-60-701, or is claimed to have been so deeded, granted, donated, or subscribed, and praying that title thereto may be confirmed and quieted as against the railroad, its successors and assigns, and as against any persons deeding, granting, donating, or subscribing the land, or claimed to have deeded, granted, donated, or subscribed the land, or their heirs and assigns, and all others claiming by, through, or under them, or either of them.  (b) Any number of tracts may be embraced in the same petition when they all lie in the same county.  (c) The petition shall be verified, and there shall be endorsed thereon a certificate of the attorney filing the petition to the effect that he or she has examined the title of the petitioner as set forth in the petition and that in his or her opinion the petition is well founded in law and true in fact. When so verified and certified, the petition shall be taken as prima facie true, and the petitioner shall be entitled to a decree thereon.
AR Code § 18-60-704 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 7 - Quieting Title — Railroads|§ 18-60-704. Publication of notice

 Upon the filing of the petition, the clerk of the court shall publish for four (4) weeks in some weekly newspaper published in the county a notice of the filing of the petition, describing the lands and the alleged conveyance to the railroad as set forth in the petition, and calling upon all persons claiming any interest in the lands to appear at the next term of the circuit court of the county and show cause, if they can, why the title of the petitioner should not be confirmed and quieted in him or her as against the railroad, its successors and assigns, and the alleged grantor, his or her heirs and assigns, and all others claiming by, through, or under them, or either of them.
AR Code § 18-60-705 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 7 - Quieting Title — Railroads|§ 18-60-705. Proof — Determination

 If any person appears to contest the petition, the burden of proof shall rest upon the person so appearing, and the court shall determine the rights of the parties in accordance with the principles and practice in equity and decree accordingly.
AR Code § 18-60-706 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 7 - Quieting Title — Railroads|§ 18-60-706. Recording of decree

 A certified copy of the decree shall be entitled to record in the deed records of the county where rendered.
AR Code § 18-60-707 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 7 - Quieting Title — Railroads|§ 18-60-707. Effect of decree

 The decree in any such cause shall be an absolute bar as against the title of any railroad, its successors and assigns, and the person deeding or claimed to have deeded, granted, donated, or subscribed the lands to the railroads, his or her heirs and assigns, and all others claiming the lands by, through, or under them, or either of them.
AR Code § 18-60-708 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 7 - Quieting Title — Railroads|§ 18-60-708. Costs

 The petitioner shall pay the costs when there is no contest, and in case of contest, the cost shall be adjudged by the court.
AR Code § 18-60-801 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 8 - Recovery of Personal Property and Replevin|§ 18-60-801. Definitions

 As used in this section and §§ 18-60-802 — 18-60-808:   (1) “Order of delivery” means a “writ of replevin”; and  (2) “Party” or “person” means individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, or any entity having the legal capacity to sue or be sued.
AR Code § 18-60-802 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 8 - Recovery of Personal Property and Replevin|§ 18-60-802. Existing laws not affected

 This section and §§ 18-60-801 and 18-60-803 — 18-60-808 shall not repeal any existing law pertaining to the recovery of personal property by parties claiming an interest therein.
AR Code § 18-60-803 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 8 - Recovery of Personal Property and Replevin|§ 18-60-803. Penalties — Damages and fee

 (a) Any person who willfully and knowingly damages property in which there exists a valid right to issuance of an order of delivery, or on which an order has been sought under the provisions of this section and §§ 18-60-801 — 18-60-802 and 18-60-804 — 18-60-808, or who conceals it, with the intent to interfere with enforcement of the order, or who removes it from the jurisdiction of the court in which the action is pending with the intention of defeating enforcement of an order of delivery, or who willfully refuses to disclose its location to an officer charged with executing an order for its delivery, or, if the property is in his or her possession, willfully interferes with the officer charged with executing the writ shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.  (b) If convicted, he or she shall be subject to a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and imprisonment for a term of not more than six (6) months, or both.  (c) In addition to these criminal penalties, he or she shall be liable to the plaintiff for double the amount of damage done to the property, together with a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court, and the damages and fee shall be deemed based on tortious conduct and enforceable accordingly.
AR Code § 18-60-804 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 8 - Recovery of Personal Property and Replevin|§ 18-60-804. Petition for recovery of personal property

 (a) In all cases in this state wherein a party claims a right of possession of property in the possession of another, the party may apply to the circuit court or the district court for issuance of an order of delivery of the property. The application shall be by petition, signed by the party or his or her attorney, and shall set forth the reasons the issuance of the order of delivery is necessary.  (b) The petition may be presented to the circuit judge, who is empowered to hear it in any county of the district he or she serves, and he or she may issue an order giving notice of hearing to be held in any county in his or her district.  (c) The petition may be brought in the district court at the election of the party so filing, and the district court shall have authority to give notice and hear the petition in the same manner as the circuit court.  (d) If the petition recites facts which, if established by proof, support the existence of a right of possession in the petitioner, an order shall be issued, directing the party against whom the order of delivery is sought to appear before the judge issuing the order and show cause why the order of delivery should not be issued and the property seized and delivered to the petitioner.
AR Code § 18-60-805 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 8 - Recovery of Personal Property and Replevin|§ 18-60-805. Notice of hearing

 (a) The order to appear and show cause why the order of delivery should not be issued shall permit a reasonable time for the party against whom it is directed to appear. It shall state the place and time the hearing shall be held.  (b)  (1)  (A) If served at the same time the summons and complaint are served, it may state with generality the nature of the action, the purpose of the hearing, and the consequences of nonappearance.  (B) If served after the summons and complaint, and separately therefrom, it shall refer to the complaint and, in addition to the foregoing, specifically describe the property to be seized if the petition is granted.    (2) In either event, the order shall inform the party against whom it is directed that civil and criminal penalties may be assessed if the property is willfully damaged, concealed, or removed from the court's jurisdiction, or if the party refuses to release the property to the officer designated to serve the order of delivery.
AR Code § 18-60-806 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 8 - Recovery of Personal Property and Replevin|§ 18-60-806. Hearing

 (a) At any hearing held on an application for an order of delivery, the petitioner shall be required to present prima facie evidence that the petitioner has the right of immediate possession of the property.  (b) If the party against whom the order of delivery is sought should fail to appear in response to the notice, the petitioner shall be required to offer the same proof necessary to secure a default judgment.  (c) If the court decides that the order of delivery should issue, an order shall be entered accordingly.
AR Code § 18-60-807 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 8 - Recovery of Personal Property and Replevin|§ 18-60-807. Immediate appearance — Impounding of property

 If the petitioner for an order of delivery, after otherwise complying with the requirements for issuance thereof, shall present evidence to the court that there is genuine danger that the property sought under the order will be removed from the court's jurisdiction, damaged, concealed, or otherwise jeopardized, the court shall have the power to direct the immediate appearance of the party having possession thereof or, if the party cannot be immediately served but the property can be located, to direct that the property be taken and impounded pending further hearing, in which event it shall be deemed in custodia legis, subject to possession by neither party without further order of the court.
AR Code § 18-60-808 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 8 - Recovery of Personal Property and Replevin|§ 18-60-808. Alternative procedure

 (a) In lieu of the procedure set forth in this section and §§ 18-60-801 — 18-60-807, at the time the complaint is filed and summons issued, a petitioner may obtain a notice issued by the clerk of the court in which the proceeding is filed. The notice shall be served with the complaint and summons and shall notify the defendant that an order of delivery of the property described in the complaint is sought and that if any objection is made to issuance of the order of delivery it must be in the form of a written response, filed within five (5) days of service of the summons and complaint, excluding Sundays and legal holidays, with a copy served on the plaintiff's attorney.  (b)  (1) In the event no written objection is filed and served within the five-day period, the clerk shall, upon the request of the plaintiff or his or her attorney, issue the writ forthwith.  (2) In the event a defendant files a written objection within the five-day period specified, the clerk shall, at the request of either party, set the matter for hearing before the circuit judge as promptly as the business of the judge shall permit.    (c) At the hearing the judge shall proceed in the manner specified in § 18-60-806.
AR Code § 18-60-809 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 8 - Recovery of Personal Property and Replevin|§ 18-60-809. Replevin

 The plaintiff in an action to recover the possession of specific personal property, at the commencement of the action or at any time before judgment, may claim the immediate delivery of the property, as provided in §§ 18-60-810 — 18-60-822.
AR Code § 18-60-810 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 8 - Recovery of Personal Property and Replevin|§ 18-60-810. Affidavit for replevin

 (a) An order for the delivery of property to the plaintiff shall be made by the clerk when there is filed in his or her office an affidavit of the plaintiff, or of someone in his or her behalf, showing:  (1) A particular description of the property claimed;  (2) Its actual value and the damages which the affiant believes the plaintiff ought to recover for the detention thereof;  (3) That the plaintiff is the owner of the property or has a special ownership or interest therein, stating the facts in relation thereto, and that he or she is entitled to the immediate possession of the property;  (4) That the property is wrongfully detained by the defendant, with the alleged cause of the detention thereof, according to the best knowledge, information, and belief of the affiant;  (5) That it has not been taken for a tax or fine against the plaintiff, or under any order or judgment of a court against him or her, or seized under an execution or attachment against his or her property, or, if so seized, that it is by statute exempt from seizure;  (6) That the plaintiff's cause of action has accrued within three (3) years; and  (7) When the action is brought to recover property taken under an execution, the fact of the taking and the nature of the process under which it was done.    (b) When the delivery of several articles of property is claimed, the affidavit must state the value of each.
AR Code § 18-60-811 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 8 - Recovery of Personal Property and Replevin|§ 18-60-811. Order for delivery of property

 (a) The order for the delivery of the property to the plaintiff shall be addressed and delivered, with a copy thereof, to the sheriff. It shall state the names of the parties to the action and the court in which the action is brought and direct the sheriff to take the property, describing it and stating its value as in the affidavit of the plaintiff, and deliver it to him or her, to make return of the order on a day to be named therein and to summon the defendant to appear on this day in the court and answer the plaintiff in the premises.  (b)  (1) If the plaintiff shall file an additional affidavit that he or she believes the property has been concealed, removed, or disposed of in any way with intent to defeat the plaintiff's action, the clerk or magistrate shall insert a clause commanding the sheriff, or other officer, that if the property mentioned in the order cannot be had, to take the body of the defendant, so that he or she appear at the return day of the order to answer the premises.  (2) The order shall be made returnable as an order of arrest is directed to be returned.
AR Code § 18-60-812 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 8 - Recovery of Personal Property and Replevin|§ 18-60-812. Bond

 (a) The order shall not be complied with by the sheriff until there has been executed in his or her presence, by one (1) or more sufficient sureties of the plaintiff, a bond to the defendant, to the effect that the plaintiff shall duly prosecute the action and that he or she shall perform the judgment of the court therein by returning the property, if a return thereof shall be adjudged, and by paying any sums of money adjudged against him or her in the action, not exceeding double the value of the property and the costs of the action.  (b) When the action is brought against a sheriff or other officer to recover possession of property taken by him or her under an execution against a person other than the plaintiff, the bond provided for in subsection (a) of this section shall be to the effect that the plaintiff shall duly prosecute the action and that he or she shall perform the judgment of the court therein by returning the property, if a return thereof shall be adjudged, and by paying to the defendant or to the plaintiff in the execution, as may be directed by the court, any sums of money adjudged against the plaintiff in the action, not exceeding double the value of the property and the costs of the action.
AR Code § 18-60-813 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 8 - Recovery of Personal Property and Replevin|§ 18-60-813. Execution of order

 (a) The sheriff shall execute the order by taking the property therein mentioned, if it is found in the possession of the defendant, or his or her agent, or of any other person who obtained possession thereof from the defendant, directly or indirectly, after the order was placed in the sheriff's hands.  (b) The sheriff shall also deliver a copy of the order to the defendant, or to the person from whose possession the property is taken, or, if neither can be found, leave it at the usual place of abode of either, with some person of the age of at least sixteen (16).
AR Code § 18-60-814 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 8 - Recovery of Personal Property and Replevin|§ 18-60-814. Orders directed to other counties

 (a) At any time before judgment an order may be directed to any other county for the delivery of the property claimed.  (b) Several orders may issue at the same time, or successively, at the option of the plaintiff, but only one (1) of the orders shall be taxed in the costs, unless otherwise ordered by the court.
AR Code § 18-60-815 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 8 - Recovery of Personal Property and Replevin|§ 18-60-815. Disposition of property replevied

 If the affidavit of the plaintiff states that the property was taken under an execution, the sheriff shall deliver it to the plaintiff. In every other case the sheriff shall retain the property in his or her possession for two (2) days, unless the bond mentioned in § 18-60-816 shall be sooner executed.
AR Code § 18-60-816 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 5 - Civil Actions|Chapter 60 - Miscellaneous Proceedings Relating to Property|Subchapter 8 - Recovery of Personal Property and Replevin|§ 18-60-816. Redelivery bond

 (a)  (1) Within two (2) days after the taking of the property by the sheriff, in the case in which the property was not taken under an execution, the defendant or anyone for him or her may cause a bond to be executed to the plaintiff in the presence of the sheriff, by one (1) or more sufficient sureties, in double the value of the property, to the effect that the defendant shall perform the judgment of the court in the actions.  (2) Thereupon the sheriff shall restore the property to the defendant or to the person in whose possession it was found.    (b)  (1) If the bond is not executed within the time provided in subsection (a) of this section, the sheriff shall deliver the property to the plaintiff.  (2) The sheriff shall return the bonds with the order.