28-01-05. Actions founded upon title to real estate or to rents or services therefrom - Limitations

28-01-05. Actions founded upon title to real estate or to rents or services therefrom -

Limitations.

No claim for relief, or defense, or counterclaim to an action founded upon the title to real

property, or to rents or service out of the same, is effectual unless it appears that the person

prosecuting the action or interposing the defense or counterclaim, or under whose title the

action is prosecuted or the defense or counterclaim is made, or the ancestor, predecessor, or

grantor of such person, was seized or possessed of the premises in question within twenty

years before the committing of the act in respect to which such action is prosecuted or such

defense or counterclaim is made.