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DARLING AND ANGELL v. PURCELL ET AL. 291 v. De Groat, 3 N. D. 354, 56 N. W. 150. Such a statute merely fixes a time when a bad title or a void procedure ripens into a good title. It does not give repose to possession. Cooley on Taxation (2d Ed.) 555, 567; Cooley's Con. Lim. 447, 449; Gros-beck v. Seeley, 13 Mich, 329 Baker v. Kelly, 11 Minn. 480 Conway v. Cable, 37 Ill. 82 Waln v. Shearman, 8 Sargent & Rawley, 357 Kipp v. Johnson, 31 Minn. 360 Farrar v. Clark, 85 Ind. 449 Gave v. Root, 93 Ind. 256; Case v. Dean, 16 Mich. 12; Quinlan v. Rogers, 12 Mich. 168; Baldwin v. Merriam, 20 N. W. 250; Feller v. Clark, 31 N. W. 175; Blackwell on Tax Titles (5th Ed.) 895, 897, 944, 945; Cooley on Con. Lim. (6th Ed.) 449; Cooley on Taxation (2d Ed.) 557. A strict construction is always given to statutory proceedings to divest a citizen of his property for a nominal consideration. Farrington v. N. E. Investment Co., 1 N. D. 102, 45 N. W. 191 Power v. Bowdle, 3 N. D. 107, 54 N. W. 404; Power v. Larabee, 2 N. D. 141, 49 N. W. 724 O'Neill v. Tyler, 3 N. D. 47, 53 N. W. 434 Swenson v. Greenland, 4 N. D. 532, 62 N. W. 603 Roberts v. First Nat. Bank of Fargo, 8 N. D. 504, 79 N. W. 1049 Lee v. Crawford, 10 N. D. 482, 88 N. W. 97 Security Imp. Co. v. Cass County, 9 N. D. 553, 84 N. W. 477 Sweigle v. Gates, 9 N. D. 538, 84 N. W. 481; Dever v. Cornwell, 10 N. D. 123, 86 N. W. 227; Hegar v. De Groat, 3 N. D. 354, 56 N. W. 150. A tax title is purely technical as distinguished from a meritorious one, and depends for its validity on a strict compliance with the statute. Black on Tax Titles, section 409 Kern v. Clarke, 60 N. W. 809 Bendixon v. Fenton, 31 N. W. 685 Haller v. Blaco, 4 N. W. 362 Hiles v. Atlee, 62 N. W. 940 Salmer v. Lathrop, 72 N. W. 570. Purcell, Bradley '& Divct, for respondents. The "Woods Law," so called, is constitutional. It was adopted from Minnesota and has been there sustained. Wells County v. McHenry, 7 N. D. 246, 74 N. W. 241 Emmons Co. v. Lands of First Nat. Bank of Bismarck, 9 N. D. 583 84 N. W. 379 Emmons Co. v. Thompson, 9 N. D. 598, 84 N. W. 385 State v. Lands of Red wood County, 42 N. W. 473 Winona and St. Peter Land Co. v. State of Minnesota, 159 U. S. 526, 16 Sup. Ct. Rep. 83 State v. Weyerhauser, 71 N. W. 265. The omission of the county seal from the certified copy of the resolution designating the delinquent tax list was not fatal. Paine