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Code · New Mexico · Chapter 42 — Actions And Proceedings Relating To Property · Article 7 — Specific Performance

42-7-1. [Contracts for sale of real estate; venue of action.]

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An action to compel the specific performance of a contract of sale of real estate may be brought in the county where the defendants or any of them reside; but if any of the defendants are nonresidents of the state, it shall be brought in the county where the real estate or some part thereof is situated.
History: Laws 1933, ch. 9, § 1; 1941 Comp., § 25-1601; 1953 Comp., § 22-18-1.
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