{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-16-16-79","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 16, § 16-79","heading":"Penalties for filing slanderous notices of claims - Quiet","body":"title action independent of criminal action.\n\nA. No person shall use the privilege of filing notices\n\nhereunder for the purpose of slandering the title to land and, in\n\nany action brought for the purpose of quieting title to land, if the\n\ncourt shall find that any person has filed a claim for that reason,\n\nhe shall award the plaintiff all the costs of such action, including\n\nsuch attorney fees as the court may allow to the plaintiff, and, in\n\naddition, shall decree that the defendant asserting such claim shall\n\npay to plaintiff three times the damages that plaintiff may have\n\nsustained as the result of such notice of claim having been so filed\n\nfor record.\n\nB. A quiet title action shall be independent of any criminal\n\naction that may be filed against the defendant, and there shall be\n\nno requirement that the defendant in a quiet title action be\n\nconvicted of any criminal act.","path":["OK Code","Title 16"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os16.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"4015e98e5da0ff7fa6a56ab02bed84ef2f6c367ff9e61bfa9cf7ae7fb7468ab3","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-16-16-78","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-16-16-8"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}