The Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice just published a set of law review articles about various aspects of eviction. Along with Samuel Spaid, the primary author, I co-authored one of them entitled Not with Strong Hands, nor with a Multitude of People: The Statutory History of the Eviction Procedure in Minnesota. The article gives citations to virtually all the Minnesota eviction statutes from the first ones in 1851 (the Territorial statutes) through 2019. It should provide a good starting point for identifying the derivation of current statutes.
The same issue of the journal includes nine other articles about eviction, most related to Minnesota practice but also including an excellent article by Judith Fox with a national perspective.
The article I coauthored is available here. The entire set of articles is available at this link (Volume 41, Issue 3). A pair of charts depicting some of the information in my law review but displayed in a different manner are available at these links – Chart 1 (conversion of old to new statutes) and Chart 2 (conversion of new to old statutes).
Birnberg Minnesota Legislative Newsletter 