Title XXX, Contracts

If the loser or his creditor does not, within six (6) months after its payment or delivery to the winner, sue for the money or thing lost, and prosecute the suit to recovery with due diligence, any other person may sue the winner, and recover treble the value of the money or thin…

The stakeholder of any money or other thing staked on any bet or wager shall, when notified to do so, return the stake to the person who deposited it. If he fails to do so, the person aggrieved may recover from him the amount or value of the stake.

Any contract, agreement or conveyance made in consideration of services to be rendered in the prosecution or defense, or aiding in the prosecution or defense, in or out of court, of any suit, by any person not a party on record in the suit, whereby the thing sued for or in contro…

(1) Any sale or conveyance, including those made under execution, of any land, or the pretended right or title thereto, of which any other person has adverse possession at the time of the sale or conveyance, is void; but this section does not render void any devise of land in adv…

vest in state. Any contract to prosecute an action for the recovery of any land in the adverse possession of another, for the whole or part of the land thus possessed, or for the whole or any part of the profits thereof, is void. The parties to the contract shall forfeit all righ…

The person in the adverse possession, his personal representatives, heirs or assigns, or the person under whom the person in adverse possession claims or holds, or his personal representatives, heirs or assigns, may give in evidence under a general denial, or may plead, the sale …

from prosecution. Persons in possession, or the person under whom the occupant holds the land, may compel the parties to any such champertous contract to testify on the trial, or to make discovery by answer to petition in equity. The person so compelled to give evidence or to mak…

Persons in possession may purchase the adverse outstanding title or claim. The purchase shall be good and shall inure to the benefit of the person making it, or to the person under whom he claims and holds the land so possessed.

Neither party to any contract made in violation of any of the provisions of KRS 372.060 to 372.120 shall have any right of action thereon.

None of the forfeitures declared by KRS 372.060 to 372.120 apply to cases of controversy between lessor and lessee, mortgagor and mortgagee, vendor and vendee or trustee and beneficiary.

(1) Except as provided in KRS 457.150, any power of attorney to confess judgment or to suffer judgment to pass by default or otherwise, and any release of errors, given before an action is instituted, is void. (2) No person shall appear for a defendant under any such power in any…

consequences of signing -- Offer for contract formation not valid without disclosure -- Notice relating to time limit -- Delivery of goods or services does not form contract -- Remedies -- Jurisdiction. (1) Any term which is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code, KRS Chapter 355…

Any person who violates any of the provisions of subsection (2) of KRS 372.140 shall forfeit one thousand dollars ($1,000) to the defendant, and shall be liable to damages at the suit of the party aggrieved.