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Okla. Stat. tit. 84, § 84-257: Actions to determine persons entitled to real property -

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  2. Title 84

Description of parties - Publication of notice.

Where any person dies intestate possessed of real property in

this state, or dies having devised pursuant to the law of this state

any real property in this state, in terms to "heirs," "relations,"

"nearest relations," "representatives," "legal representatives,"

"personal representatives," "family," "issues," "descendants,"

"nearest of kin," or to persons by any other description or

designation which leaves at large the names or individual identity

of the particular person embraced therein, and the period of one (1)

or more years since the death of such intestate or testator has

elapsed without their having been a decree by the district court of

the county having jurisdiction to administer upon his estate,

wherein it was judicially determined who, by name, are or were all

the particular persons entitled to participate in the distribution

of such real property under such devise or the law of succession, or

where the grantees in any deed, or deed of patent made and issued or

designated as "the devisees," of "the heirs at law" or "the legal

representatives" of a named deceased person, without naming them, or

by any other description or designation which leaves at large the

names or individual identity of the particular persons embraced

therein, the name and individual identity of each and all the

persons who take or were entitled to take such real property and the

proportion or part thereof which each takes or was entitled to take,

immediately under such testamentary devise, or grant, or the law of

succession, may be judicially determined and jurisdiction thereto

invoked in the manner following: In any action which relates to or

the subject matter of which is such real property, or for the

determination in any form of any interest, right, title or estate

therein, or in which the relief demanded consists wholly or partly

in excluding the defendants or any of them from any interest, right,

title or estate therein, the plaintiff may allege, among other

things, in his petition, the facts showing such testamentary devise,

or grant of, or intestate succession to, such real property, and

(regardless of whether they or any of them be living or dead) the

names as he is informed and believes, all of the devisees, or

grantees, or heirs at law, as the case may be, who take or were

entitled to take such real property and the proportion or part which

each takes or was entitled to take therein, immediately under such

devise, or grant, or intestate succession; and he may make all such

devisees, or grantees, or heirs at law, their heirs, executors,

administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, parties defendant in

such action under the description, and have service of notice by

publication upon them under such description, to-wit: "The heirs,

executors, administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, of

__________ deceased." (Naming such testator, or intestate, or the

person stated in such deed or patent to be deceased, as the case may

be.

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