Colorado Code § 38-41-111

When action will not lie against person in possession
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(1) No action shall
be commenced or maintained against a person in possession of real property to question or attack
the validity of or to set aside, upon any ground or for any reason whatsoever any final decree or
final order of any court of record in this state or any instrument of conveyance, deed, certificate
of sale, or release executed by any private trustee, successor in trust, public trustee, sheriff,
marshal, county treasurer, or any public official whatsoever, whether named in this section or
not, or officer or any appointee of any court when such document is the source of or in aid of or
in explanation of the title or chain of title or right of the party in possession or any of his
predecessors or grantors insofar as the same may affect the title or explain any matter connected
with the title in reference to said real property if such document has been recorded and has
remained of record in the office of the county clerk and recorder of the county where said real
property is situated for a period of seven years. All defects, irregularities, want of service,
defective service, lack of jurisdiction, or other grounds of invalidity, nullity, or causes or reasons
whereby or wherefore any such document might be set aside or rendered inoperative must be
raised in a suit commenced within said seven-year period and not thereafter.
(2) This section shall not apply to any of the following cases:
(a) Forged documents;
(b) During the pendency of an action, commenced prior to the expiration of said seven-
year period, to set aside, modify, or annul or otherwise affect such document, and notice of such
action has been filed as provided by law;
(c) When such document has been, by proper order or decree of competent court,
avoided, annulled, or rendered inoperative;
(d) Where the party, or his predecessor, who brings the action to question, to attack, or to
set aside the validity of such documents, has been deprived of possession within two years of the
commencement of said action.

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