Statute of Limitations, when Inapplicable to State.—The rule is settled that statutes of limitations do not apply to or bind the state, unless they are made to do so by express words or necessary implication; and the fact that the general words of the statute may be apparently broad enough to include, will not be sufficient to affect its rights, unless that construction is clear and indisputable upon the text of the statute.

Id.—Delinquent Taxes—Sale to State—Time fob Deed—Limitation Inapplicable.—The provision of section 3788 of the Political Code, as amended in 1885, that “in all cases where land has been heretofore sold for delinquent taxes, the deed therefor must be made within one year and three months after this act takes effect, and, unless so made, the purchaser shall be deemed to have relinquished all his rights under such sale,” does not apply to the state.

Taxation—Equitable Title to State Lands—Sale fob Delinquent Taxes — Subsequent Patents—Pbesumption—Injunction against Deed.—The equitable title to lands sold by the state, for which certificates of purchase have been issued, on payment of part of the purchase price, is subject to taxation, and when such lands are afterward sold to the state for delinquent taxes, the equitable title revests in the state, subject to redemption as provided by statute; and if thereafter the state issues patents for the land, such patents must be presumed to have been regularly issued in performance of official duty, after compliance with all conditions precedent, and to have passed the complete title of the state, and the owner of such title may enjoin the execution of a deed to the state under the sale for delinquent taxes.

Id.—Void Assessment—“Known and Unknown Owners.”—Where the land described in an assessment and in the certificate of sale for delinquent taxes was assessed to a person named, “and to all owners and claimants known and unknown,” the assessment and certificate are void, and a tax deed containing such a recital is void on its face, and it cannot be shown that there was in fact a valid assessment.

Id.—Void Tax Deed — Cloud upon Title—Injunction.—A tax deed which is void upon its face cannot cast a cloud upon the title of the owner of the land, and a court of equity will not enjoin the issuance of such void deed.