Title 57 — Taxation

Any county may maintain and prosecute any action to determine adverse claims and to quiet title to all lands acquired by it through tax deed proceedings, against any person claiming an estate or interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, any such lands.

In any action brought by any county to determine adverse claims and to quiet title to real estate acquired through tax deed proceedings, the county may unite in the same complaint as many separate claims for relief as the state's attorney determines to be advisable, but each desc…

In any action brought to determine adverse claims, the county may join as parties defendant as many persons who have estate or interest in, or liens or encumbrances upon any real property appearing of record, as the state's attorney shall deem necessary, regardless of the nonexis…

Whenever any defendant answers the complaint in an action to quiet title and the issues have been joined, the claim for relief against the answering defendant may be tried separately to the court and a separate judgment may be entered thereon. Joint judgments by default may be ta…

All provisions of law relating to the service of process in civil actions, and general provisions of the laws of this state relating to the procedure in actions brought to determine adverse claims, insofar as the same are consistent with the provisions of this chapter, apply to a…