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TN Code § 18-6-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 18 - Clerks of Courts|Chapter 6 - County Clerks|§ 18-6-112. Incompetency of Clerk

  Whenever the county clerk is incompetent, because of interest or relationship, to do or perform any official act required by law to be done by the county clerk, it shall be lawful and is the duty of the county mayor or appropriate judge to do and perform the act.   When the clerk is incompetent to take and state any account, the account shall be taken and stated by a special commissioner, to be appointed by the chancellor as provided by law.
TN Code § 18-6-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 18 - Clerks of Courts|Chapter 6 - County Clerks|§ 18-6-113. Depositions

 The county clerks are authorized and empowered to take depositions in any legal proceeding to the same extent and after the same manner as notaries public, and in taking such depositions the clerks shall attest the depositions under their official seals, and for such services shall be entitled to the same compensation as notaries public.
TN Code § 18-6-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 18 - Clerks of Courts|Chapter 6 - County Clerks|§ 18-6-114. Oaths and Affidavits

   The county clerks are authorized and empowered to take affidavits and administer oaths for general purposes to the same extent as judges of the courts of general sessions and notaries public.   They shall attest the affidavits and oaths under their official seals or the seals of their respective courts.      As compensation for their services in taking any such affidavit or oath and so attesting the affidavit or oath, they shall be entitled to receive the sum of twenty-five cents (25¢), to be paid by the party whose affidavit or oath is so taken.   This section shall not affect the fees provided by law for such clerks incident to their duties in their respective courts.
TN Code § 18-6-115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 18 - Clerks of Courts|Chapter 6 - County Clerks|§ 18-6-115. Vacancies

 If the office of the county clerk becomes vacant due to death, resignation or removal, the duties of the county clerk shall be temporarily discharged by the chief deputy, or deputy designated as temporary successor by the county clerk in writing, until a successor county clerk is elected or appointed and qualified according to law.
TN Code § 20-1-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions|§ 20-1-102. Indemnification of Nominal Plaintiff

 The person whose name is used in the prosecution of a suit may, at any time during the progress of the cause, require the party for whose benefit the action is brought to give bond, with good security, to indemnify the person whose name is used in the prosecution of the suit against all damages and costs.   Code 1858, § 2796; Shan., § 4493; Code 1932, § 8620; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-102.
TN Code § 20-1-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions|§ 20-1-103. Action on Bond

 For any breach of an official bond or undertaking of any officer, executor, administrator or guardian, or of any bond or undertaking required to be given by law for the security of the public generally or of particular individuals, the party aggrieved may, without assignment, bring suit on the breach for the aggrieved party's use, giving security for costs and being liable therefor as if the suit had been brought in the aggrieved party's own name.   Code 1858, § 2797 (deriv. Acts 1822, ch. 16, § 4; 1825, ch. 45, §§ 1, 2, 5; 1826, ch. 27, § 1; 1851-1852, ch. 144, §§ 1, 2); Shan., § 4494; Code 1932, § 8621; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-103.
TN Code § 20-1-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions|§ 20-1-104. Deserted Wife as Party

 Where a husband has deserted his family, the wife may prosecute or defend, in the husband's name, any action that the husband might have prosecuted or defended. The wife may also sue and be sued in her own name for any cause of action accruing subsequently to such desertion.   Code 1858, § 2805; Shan., § 4505; Code 1932, § 8632; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-104.
TN Code § 20-1-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions|§ 20-1-105. Expenses and Loss of Service Incident to Injury to Child

  The father and mother of a minor child have equal rights to maintain an action for the expenses and the actual loss of service resulting from an injury to a minor child in the parents' service or living in the family except that where one (1) parent is dead or has deserted the family, the other parent shall have the sole right to maintain the action.   In case the father and mother of the minor child are living apart and one (1) parent has exclusive legal custody of the child, the parent with legal custody has the sole right to maintain an action for the expenses and the actual loss of service resulting from an injury to the minor child, except that the noncustodial parent in such case shall have a right to maintain or join an action brought under this section, for the expenses resulting from an injury to the minor child to the extent the noncustodial parent has paid those expenses.    Code 1958, § 2803; Shan., § 4503; Code 1932, § 8630; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-105; Acts 1982, ch. 853, § 5.
TN Code § 20-1-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions|§ 20-1-107. Several Liability on Joint Obligations

 All joint obligations and promises are made joint and several, and the debt or obligation shall survive against the heirs and personal representatives of deceased obligors as well as against the survivors, and suits may be brought and prosecuted on the obligations and promises against all or any part of the original obligors, and all or any part of the representatives of deceased obligors, as if such obligations and assumptions were joint and several.   Code 1858, § 2789 (deriv. Acts 1789, ch. 57, § 5); Shan., § 4486; Code 1932, § 8613; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-108.
TN Code § 20-1-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions|§ 20-1-108. Joinder of Defendants on Joint and Several Obligations

 Persons jointly or severally, or jointly and severally, bound on the same instrument, or by judgment, decree or statute, including the makers and endorsers of negotiable paper and sureties, may all or any part of them be sued in the same action.   Code 1858, § 2787 (deriv. Acts 1789, ch. 57, § 5; 1813, ch. 66, § 1; 1820, ch. 25, § 1; 1829, ch. 66, § 1; 1837-1838, ch. 5, § 1); Shan., § 4484; Code 1932, § 8611; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-109.
TN Code § 20-1-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions|§ 20-1-109. Action in Name Used in Instrument

 Suit may be brought by or against any of the parties to a written instrument on which the action is founded, by the name and description used in the instrument.   Code 1858, § 2788; Shan., § 4485; Code 1932, § 8612; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-110.
TN Code § 20-1-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions|§ 20-1-110. Failure of Recovery Against Joint Defendants

 In all actions on contracts, a dismissal of suit as to one (1) or more of those jointly sued, or failure to recover as to one (1), shall not prevent a recovery against those defendants who may be liable.   Code 1858, § 2790 (deriv. Acts 1820, ch. 25, § 2); Shan., § 4487; Code 1932, § 8614; T.C.A (orig. ed.), § 20-111.
TN Code § 20-1-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions|§ 20-1-111. Maintaining Action After Executor or Administrator Removes From Jurisdiction

  Where one (1) of several executors or administrators removes out of the state, actions may be prosecuted and judgments rendered against such as remain, in the same manner as if all were sued.   If the cause of action is within the jurisdiction of a judge of the court of general sessions, it may be prosecuted against the administrator or executor who remains in the county, where one (1) of them removes out of the state or into another county.    Code 1858, §§ 2791, 2792 (deriv. Acts 1826, ch. 38, § 1; 1827, ch. 84, § 1); Shan., §§ 4488, 4489; Code 1932, §§ 8615, 8616; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-112.
TN Code § 20-1-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions|§ 20-1-112. Defenses of Executors Sued Separately

 The defendants, so separately sued, shall not be held further liable than if all were sued and may avail themselves of all the defenses allowed where all are sued.   Code 1858, § 2793 (deriv. Acts 1826, ch. 38, § 1; 1827, ch. 84, § 1); Shan., § 4490; Code 1932, § 8617; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-113.
TN Code § 20-1-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions|§ 20-1-113. Separate Judgments Against Executors

 The same proceedings may be taken on judgments rendered in such separate suits, to subject the defendants for waste of assets or to subject real estate descended to heirs, as when all the executors or administrators are sued.   Code 1858, § 2794 (deriv. Acts 1826, ch. 38, § 2); Shan., § 4491; Code 1932, § 8618; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-114.
TN Code § 20-1-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions|§ 20-1-114. Addition of Parties

  At any time before trial, new plaintiffs or defendants may be added to the suit by the plaintiff, upon supplemental process taken out and served or appearance entered.   If added at the appearance term, it may be done without costs; if at any subsequent term, on such terms as to costs and conditions as the court may prescribe, so as to prevent delay.    Code 1858, § 2798 (deriv. Acts 1851-1852, ch. 152, § 6); Shan., § 4495; mod. Code 1932, § 8622; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-115.
TN Code § 20-1-115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions|§ 20-1-115. Intervention in Property Action

 In actions for the recovery of property, any person not a party to the action, on showing interest in the subject matter of the suit, may be allowed to appear as defendant in the action.   Code 1858, § 2799; Shan., § 4496; Code 1932, § 8623; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-116.
TN Code § 20-1-116 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions|§ 20-1-116. Substitution of Defendant in Property Action

  At any time before defense made, the defendant may apply to the court to substitute in the defendant's place any person not already a party, who claims the money or property in suit, by filing an affidavit, stating the facts on which the person founds the application, showing that the right in the subject matter in controversy is in the third person; that the affiant has no interest in the suit, and may be exposed to the claim of two (2) or more adverse parties, denying all collusion with the party sought to be substituted, and proffering to pay the money or deliver the property into the custody of the court.   If, on notice to the plaintiff and the person sought to be substituted as defendant, sufficient cause is shown, the court may order the substitution and discharge the original defendant from liability to either party, and make such disposition, pending the suit, of the fund or property in controversy, as to secure the money, property or its value to the party who shall prove to be entitled.    Code 1858, § 2800 (deriv. Acts 1857-1858, ch. 56, § 1); Shan., § 4497; Code 1932, § 8624; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-117.
TN Code § 20-1-117 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions|§ 20-1-117. Substitution for Levying Officer

  Where property is levied upon under any process of law by an officer and taken into possession, and an action is brought against the officer for the recovery of the property or for damages, any person at whose instance the process issued may be permitted to come into court at any time before the cause is finally disposed of and be substituted as defendant in the place of the officer, of which an entry shall be made upon the minutes of the court.   The party so substituted may, in the discretion of the court, be compelled to assume and give security for all costs that have or may become chargeable to the officer up to the time of the substitution.   Upon the substitution, the officer shall no longer be a party to the suit but shall be a competent witness in the suit.
TN Code § 20-1-118 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions|§ 20-1-118. Default Judgment Against Levying Officer

 Upon written notice from the levying officer being served upon the party at whose instance the process issued, stating the nature of the suit, the court in which it is pending, and demanding that the party come into court and be substituted in the place of the officer, and stating the day upon which the application for substitution shall be made, if the party does not appear and become substituted in the officer's place, the officer may permit judgment to go by default against the officer or make defense.
TN Code § 20-1-119 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions|§ 20-1-119. Comparative Fault — Joinder of Third Party Defendants

  In civil actions where comparative fault is or becomes an issue, if a defendant named in an original complaint initiating a suit filed within the applicable statute of limitations, or named in an amended complaint filed within the applicable statute of limitations, alleges in an answer or amended answer to the original or amended complaint that a person not a party to the suit caused or contributed to the injury or damage for which the plaintiff seeks recovery, and if the plaintiff's cause or causes of action against that person would be barred by any applicable statute of limitations but for the operation of this section, the plaintiff may, within ninety (90) days of the filing of the first answer or first amended answer alleging that person's fault, either:  Amend the complaint to add the person as a defendant pursuant to Tenn. R. Civ. P. 15 and cause process to be issued for that person; or   Institute a separate action against that person by filing a summons and complaint. If the plaintiff elects to proceed under this section by filing a separate action, the complaint so filed shall not be considered an original complaint initiating the suit or an amended complaint for purposes of this subsection (a).     A cause of action brought within ninety (90) days pursuant to subsection (a) shall not be barred by any statute of limitations. This section shall not extend any applicable statute of repose, nor shall this section permit the plaintiff to maintain an action against a person when such an action is barred by an applicable statute of repose.   This section shall neither shorten nor lengthen the applicable statute of limitations for any cause of action, other than as provided in subsection (a).   Subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply to any civil action commenced pursuant to § 28-1-105, except an action originally commenced in general sessions court and subsequently recommenced in circuit or chancery court.   This section shall not limit the right of any defendant to allege in an answer or amended answer that a person not a party to the suit caused or contributed to the injury for which the plaintiff seeks recovery.   As used in this section, “person” means any individual or legal entity.   Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, this section applies to suits involving governmental entities.
TN Code § 20-3-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 3 - Lis Pendens|§ 20-3-101. Filing of Abstract — Effect of Not Filing

  When any person, in any court of record, by declaration, petition, bill or cross bill, seeks to fix a lien lis pendens on real estate, or any interest in real estate, situated in the county of suit, in furtherance of the setting aside of a fraudulent conveyance, of subjection of property under return of nulla bona, tracing a trust fund, enforcing an equitable vendor's lien, or otherwise, that person shall file for record in the register's office of the county an abstract, certified by the clerk, containing the names of the parties to the suit, a description of the real estate affected, its ownership and a brief statement of the nature and amount of the lien sought to be fixed.   Until the abstract is so filed, so far as concerns the rights of bona fide purchasers and encumbrancers, for value, of the realty, or any interest in the realty, they shall not be affected.    Code 1932, § 8053; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-301.
TN Code § 20-3-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 3 - Lis Pendens|§ 20-3-102. Duties of Register

 It is the duty of the register immediately to file the abstract and to record the abstract in the lien book.   Code 1932, § 8055; T.C.A (orig. ed.), § 20-303.   Law Reviews.   Preferences, Priorities, and Powers of the State in the Collection of Delinquent Revenue: Tennessee's Tax Enforcement Procedures Act (Donald J. Serkin), 8 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 707.
TN Code § 20-3-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 3 - Lis Pendens|§ 20-3-103. Termination of Action in Which Filed

  Where the suit, abstract of the claimed lien in which has been filed and recorded, finally terminates, whether on the merits or otherwise, the court may direct the entry on the lien book in the registry of an order respecting the suit made by it, which order, certified by the clerk, shall be presented to the register, who shall immediately note its date and record it on the lien book at the proper place.   Should no such order be entered by the court, it is the duty of the plaintiff or complainant who filed the notice abstract to cause to be noted of record the fact of termination, or, if the claim is satisfied, the satisfaction of the claim, such notation to be attested in writing by the register or the register's deputy.    Code 1932, § 8056; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-304.
TN Code § 20-3-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 3 - Lis Pendens|§ 20-3-105. Lien on Real Estate

  When any person in a court of record seeks to fix a lien lis pendens on real estate, or any interest in real estate, and the court in furtherance of the lien issues a restraining order, the restraining order shall be valid for ninety (90) days only unless:  The court orders a longer period of time to apply; or   Bond is given for the value of the property involved by the party seeking the order.     The abstract filed in the register's office pursuant to this part shall contain information relevant to any restraining order and the duration of the restraining order.
TN Code § 20-5-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 5 - Abatement and Survival of Actions|§ 20-5-101. No Abatement Where Cause Survives

 Actions do not abate by the death or other disability of either party, or by the transfer of any interest in the action, if the cause of action survives or continues.   Code 1858, § 2845 (deriv. Acts 1785, ch. 2, § 2; 1786, ch. 14, § 1; 1819, ch. 16, §§ 1, 3; 1835-1836, ch. 77, § 1); Shan., § 4568; mod. Code 1932, § 8693; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-601.
TN Code § 20-5-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 5 - Abatement and Survival of Actions|§ 20-5-102. Actions Surviving Death of Party

 No civil action commenced, whether founded on wrongs or contracts, except actions for wrongs affecting the character of the plaintiff, shall abate by the death of either party, but may be revived; nor shall any right of action arising hereafter based on the wrongful act or omission of another, except actions for wrongs affecting the character, be abated by the death of the party wronged; but the right of action shall pass in like manner as the right of action described in § 20-5-106.   Code 1858, § 2846 (deriv. Acts 1835-1836, ch. 77, § 1); Shan., § 4569; Code 1932, § 8694; Acts 1967, ch. 121, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-602.
TN Code § 20-5-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 5 - Abatement and Survival of Actions|§ 20-5-103. Causes Surviving Death of Tort-Feasor

  In all cases where a person commits a tortious or wrongful act causing injury or death to another, or property damage, and the person committing the wrongful act dies before suit is instituted to recover damages, the death of that person shall not abate any cause of action that the plaintiff would have otherwise had, but the cause of action shall survive and may be prosecuted against the personal representative of the tort-feasor or wrongdoer.   The common law rule abating such actions upon the death of the wrongdoer and before suit is commenced is abrogated.   This section shall not apply to actions for wrongs affecting the character of the plaintiff.
TN Code § 20-5-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 5 - Abatement and Survival of Actions|§ 20-5-104. Revival by or Against Heirs

 If no person will administer on the estate of a deceased plaintiff or defendant, the suit may be revived by or against the heirs of the decedent.   Code 1858, § 2849 (deriv. Acts 1809 (Sept.), ch. 121, § 3); Shan., § 4571; Code 1932, § 8696; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-605.
TN Code § 20-5-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 5 - Abatement and Survival of Actions|§ 20-5-105. Revival by or Against Successor in Interest

 If the decedent has parted with the decedent's interest pending the suit, it may be revived by or against the successor in interest instead of the representative or heir.   Code 1858, § 2850 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 64); Shan., § 4572; Code 1932, § 8697; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-606.