Rhode Island General Laws 34-13.1-9. Notice not to be recorded to slander title damages
No person may use the privilege of recording notices under § 34-13.1-5 and § 34-13.1-6 for the purpose of slandering the title to land. In any action brought for the purpose of quieting title to land, if the court finds that any person has recorded a claim for that purpose only, the court shall award the plaintiff all the costs of the action, including such attorneys’ fees as the court may allow to the plaintiff, and in addition, shall decree that the defendant asserting the claim shall pay to the plaintiff all damages the plaintiff may have sustained as the result of such notice of claim having been so recorded.
History of Section.
P.L. 1995, ch. 241, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 299, § 1.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 34-13.1-9
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
- Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
- Recorded: means recorded as provided by chapter 13 of this title;
(d) "Records" means the Land Evidence Records of the town or city where the particular land is located;
(e) "Root of title" means that conveyance or other title transaction in the chain of title of a person, purporting to create or containing language sufficient to transfer the interest claimed by such person, upon which he relies as a basis for the marketability of his title, and which was the most recent to be recorded as of a date forty (40) years prior to the time when marketability is being determined. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-13.1-1