Oklahoma Code § 12-1481

Title 12. Civil Procedure: Occupying claimant entitled to pay for improvements and
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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.

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