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Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 24.29

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Land: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
  • Preceding: when used by way of reference to any statute section, means the section next preceding that in which the reference is made. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01

At any time before the 5 days next preceding the reoffering at public sale of any land forfeited under s. 24.28, the former purchaser, or the former purchaser’s assigns or legal representatives, may prevent the resale of the forfeited lands and revive the original contract by paying the principal sum due, with interest, and all taxes returned on the forfeited lands to the secretary of administration that are still unpaid, and all costs occasioned by the delay, together with 3 percent damages on the whole sum owing for the forfeited lands.