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TN Code § 29-22-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 22 - Hospitals' Liens|§ 29-22-104. Impairment of Lien — Damages

  No release or satisfaction or any action, suit, claim, counterclaim, demand, judgment, settlement or settlement agreement, or any of them, shall be valid or effectual as against such lien unless the lienholder shall join therein or execute a release of the lien.    Any acceptance of a release or satisfaction of any such cause of action, suit, claim, counterclaim, demand or judgment and any settlement of any of the foregoing in the absence of a release or satisfaction of the lien referred to in this chapter shall prima facie constitute an impairment of such lien, and the lienholder shall be entitled to an action at law for damages on account of such impairment, and in such action may recover from the one accepting such release or satisfaction or making such settlement the reasonable cost of such hospital care, treatment and maintenance.   Satisfaction of any judgment rendered in favor of the lienholder in any such action shall operate as a satisfaction of the lien.   Any action by the lienholder shall be brought in the court having jurisdiction of the amount of the lienholder's claim and may be brought and maintained in the county of residence of the lienholder.
TN Code § 29-22-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 22 - Hospitals' Liens|§ 29-22-105. Release of Lien — Fee

  To release a perfected lien as described under this chapter, the operator of the hospital to whom the lien has been duly paid shall execute a certificate to the effect that the claim filed by such hospital for treatment, care and maintenance therein has been duly paid or discharged and authorizing the clerk in whose office the notice of hospital lien has been filed, to release the same, such release to be at the expense of the hospital.   The clerk shall thereupon enter upon the margin of the hospital lien book in which the lien has been entered, a memorandum of such filing and the date when such certificate of payment or discharge was filed in the clerk's office, which certificate and entry shall constitute a release of lien, for which the clerk shall receive the sum of two dollars ($2.00).
TN Code § 29-22-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 22 - Hospitals' Liens|§ 29-22-106. Lienholder Not to Be Named on Checks or Drafts

 No person, firm, or corporation, paying a claim, demand, or judgment shall include the name of any lien claimant, under this chapter, as a payee on any drafts or checks issued to settle such claims, demands, or judgments.
TN Code § 29-22-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 22 - Hospitals' Liens|§ 29-22-107. Limitations on Hospital

 This chapter shall not be construed as giving any hospital an independent right of action to determine liability for injuries sustained by any person covered herein nor shall any settlement or compromise of a claim entered into on behalf of such person require the approval of the hospital.
TN Code § 29-24-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 24 - Libel and Slander|§ 29-24-101. Charge of Adultery or Fornication

 Any words written, spoken, or printed of a person, wrongfully and maliciously imputing to such person the commission of adultery or fornication, are actionable, without special damage except as otherwise provided in § 29-24-105.   Code 1858, § 3400 (deriv. Acts 1805, ch. 6, § 1); Shan., § 5155; Code 1932, § 9310; Acts 1957, ch. 240, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-2601.
TN Code § 29-24-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 24 - Libel and Slander|§ 29-24-102. Costs on Nominal Recovery

 Where the verdict in slander is under five dollars ($5.00), the plaintiff shall recover no more costs than damages.   Code 1858, § 3402 (deriv. Acts 1715, ch. 27, § 8); Shan., § 5157; Code 1932, § 9313; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-2604.
TN Code § 29-24-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 24 - Libel and Slander|§ 29-24-103. Notice of Action Against Periodical — Effect of Retraction

  Before any civil action is brought for publication, in a newspaper or periodical, of a libel, the plaintiff shall, at least five (5) days before instituting such action, serve notice in writing on the defendant, specifying the article and the statements therein which the plaintiff alleges to be false and defamatory.    If it appears upon the trial that the article was published in good faith, that its falsity was due to an honest mistake of the facts, and that there were reasonable grounds for believing that the statements in the article were true, and that within ten (10) days after the service of such notice, or in the next regular edition of such newspaper or periodical, if more than ten (10) days from date of notice, a full and fair correction, apology, or retraction was published in the same editions, and in the case of a daily newspaper, in all editions of the day of such publication, or corresponding issues of the newspaper or periodical in which the article appeared; and in the case of newspapers on the front page thereof, and in the case of other periodicals in as conspicuous a place as that of the original defamatory article, and in either case, in as conspicuous a plat or type as was the original article, then the plaintiff shall recover only actual, and not punitive, damages.   The exemption from punitive damages shall not apply to any article about or affecting a candidate for political office, published within ten (10) days before any election for the office for which the person is a candidate.
TN Code § 29-24-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 24 - Libel and Slander|§ 29-24-104. Broadcasting Stations

  The owner, licensee, or operator of a visual or sound radio broadcasting station or network of stations, and the agents or employees of any such owner, licensee or operator, shall not be liable for any damages for any defamatory statement published or uttered in or as a part of a visual or sound radio broadcast, by one other than such owner, licensee, or operator, or agent or employee thereof, unless it shall be alleged by the complaining party that such owner, licensee, operator, or such agent or employee, has failed to exercise due care to prevent the publication or utterance of such statement in such broadcast.   It shall be the responsibility of the owner, licensee or operator to show that due care was used.   In no event, however, shall any owner, licensee, or operator, or the agents or employees of any such owner, licensee or operator of any such a station or network of stations, be held liable for any damages for any defamatory statement uttered over the facilities of such station or network by any candidate for public office, unless such statement is made by an agent or employee of the owner, licensee, or operator in the course of employment.
TN Code § 29-24-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 24 - Libel and Slander|§ 29-24-105. Commercial Printers and Printing Establishments Relieved of Liability for Libel Under Certain Conditions

  For the purpose of this section, “commercial printer or commercial printing establishment” includes any person or establishment producing printed products by any and all processes, and suppliers of type, stencils, plates and/or negatives from which such printing is produced.   The right of action heretofore existing against a commercial printer or commercial printing establishment engaged in the business of printing for others to recover sums of money as damages for the publication of a libel is hereby abolished where the copy for the libelous matter was furnished by the customer to the commercial printer or commercial printing establishment, and no part of the libelous matter was written, edited or otherwise authored by the commercial printer or commercial printing establishment or their agents, servants or employees.    The benefits of this section shall not inure to the commercial printer or printing establishment, where the copy is libelous per se or where the commercial printer, or commercial printing establishment, its agents, servants or employees knew, or in the exercise of ordinary care should have known, of the falsity of the matter contained in such copy.   The benefit of this section shall not inure to the benefit of any commercial printer or any commercial printing establishment unless such printer or printing establishment requires the person furnishing such copy to place the provider's true name, address and organization represented, if any, on such copy or in a permanent record book kept for such purpose, such information to be available to the person allegedly libeled upon the libeled party's written request.
TN Code § 29-25-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 25 - Mandamus|§ 29-25-101. Power to Issue Writ

 Circuit judges and chancellors have power to issue writs of mandamus, upon petition or bill, supported by affidavit.   Code 1858, § 3567 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 51, § 1); Shan., § 5331; mod. Code 1932, § 9491; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-2001.
TN Code § 29-25-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 25 - Mandamus|§ 29-25-102. Alternative and Peremptory Writs

  The writ is either alternative or peremptory.   The alternative writ commands the defendant to do the act required to be performed or show cause before the court forthwith, or at a specified time and place, why the defendant has not done so, and that the defendant then and there return the writ.   The peremptory writ commands the defendant to do the act and return the writ accordingly.    Code 1858, § 3569; Shan., § 5333; Code 1932, § 9493; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-2002.
TN Code § 29-25-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 25 - Mandamus|§ 29-25-103. Court to Which Writ Returnable

 The writ is returnable to the court of the county in which the land lies, in all cases where land is the subject of controversy, and in all other cases to the court of the county where the defendant resides, or, if against a public officer or corporation, in the county in which the office is kept or corporation does business.   Code 1858, § 3568 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 51, § 2); Shan., § 5332; mod. Code 1932, § 9492; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-2003.
TN Code § 29-25-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 25 - Mandamus|§ 29-25-104. Notice to and Intervention by Third Person

 The defendant in the writ shall notify any third person claiming title to or interest in the matter in controversy, and such third person may, upon application, be made a defendant, and permitted to file an answer, upon giving security for costs.   Code 1858, § 3571 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 51, § 3); Shan., § 5335; Code 1932, § 9495; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-2004.
TN Code § 29-25-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 25 - Mandamus|§ 29-25-105. Failure of Third Person to Appear

 If such third person is a nonresident or unknown, publication shall be made as in other cases against nonresidents; and, on the nonresident's failing to appear and answer according to the requirements of the order of publication, the petition or bill may be taken for confessed, and proceeded with ex parte.   Code 1858, § 3573 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 51, § 5); Shan., § 5337; Code 1932, § 9497; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-2005.
TN Code § 29-25-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 25 - Mandamus|§ 29-25-106. Filing of Answer

 On the return day of the alternative writ, or on such further day as the court may allow, the party on whom the writ has been served may show cause by a sworn answer, and issue may be made thereon, and tried accordingly.   Code 1858, § 3570; Shan., § 5334; Code 1932, § 9494; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-2006.
TN Code § 29-25-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 25 - Mandamus|§ 29-25-107. Issues of Fact

 If the answer deny any material facts stated in the petition, the court may determine the issues upon evidence, or cause them to be submitted to a jury.   Code 1858, § 3572 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 51, § 4); Shan., § 5336; Code 1932, § 9496; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-2007.
TN Code § 29-25-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 25 - Mandamus|§ 29-25-108. Judgment

  When the defendant makes default, or a decision is made against the defendant after appearance, the court shall direct a peremptory mandamus to issue forthwith.   Should the decision be adverse to the petitioner, the petition or bill shall be dismissed with costs.    Code 1858, § 3574 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 51, § 7); Shan., § 5338; Code 1932, § 9498; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-2008.
TN Code § 29-25-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 25 - Mandamus|§ 29-25-109. Costs

 The costs and fees in mandamus cases are the same as those prescribed by law for similar services in chancery proceedings.   Code 1858, § 3575 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 51, § 8); Shan., § 5339; Code 1932, § 9499; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-2009.
TN Code § 29-28-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 28 - Products Liability Actions|§ 29-28-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Products Liability Act of 1978.”
TN Code § 29-28-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 28 - Products Liability Actions|§ 29-28-102. Chapter Definitions

 As used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:   “Anticipated life.” The anticipated life of a product shall be determined by the expiration date placed on the product by the manufacturer when required by law but shall not commence until the date the product was first purchased for use or consumption;   “Defective condition” means a condition of a product that renders it unsafe for normal or anticipatable handling and consumption;   “Employer” means any person exercising legal supervisory control or guidance of users or consumers of products;   “Manufacturer” means the designer, fabricator, producer, compounder, processor or assembler of any product or its component parts;   “Product” means any tangible object or goods produced;   “Product liability action” for purposes of this chapter includes all actions brought for or on account of personal injury, death or property damage caused by or resulting from the manufacture, construction, design, formula, preparation, assembly, testing, service, warning, instruction, marketing, packaging or labeling of any product. “Product liability action” includes, but is not limited to, all actions based upon the following theories: strict liability in tort; negligence; breach of warranty, express or implied; breach of or failure to discharge a duty to warn or instruct, whether negligent, or innocent; misrepresentation, concealment, or nondisclosure, whether negligent, or innocent; or under any other substantive legal theory in tort or contract whatsoever;   “Seller” includes a retailer, wholesaler, or distributor, and means any individual or entity engaged in the business of selling a product, whether such sale is for resale, or for use or consumption. “Seller” also includes a lessor or bailor engaged in the business of leasing or bailment of a product; and   “Unreasonably dangerous” means that a product is dangerous to an extent beyond that which would be contemplated by the ordinary consumer who purchases it, with the ordinary knowledge common to the community as to its characteristics, or that the product because of its dangerous condition would not be put on the market by a reasonably prudent manufacturer or seller, assuming that the manufacturer or seller knew of its dangerous condition.
TN Code § 29-28-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 28 - Products Liability Actions|§ 29-28-103. Limitation of Actions — Exception

  Any action against a manufacturer or seller of a product for injury to person or property caused by its defective or unreasonably dangerous condition must be brought within the period fixed by §§ 28-3-104, 28-3-105, 28-3-202 and 47-2-725, but notwithstanding any exceptions to these provisions, it must be brought within six (6) years of the date of injury, in any event, the action must be brought within ten (10) years from the date on which the product was first purchased for use or consumption, or within one (1) year after the expiration of the anticipated life of the product, whichever is the shorter, except in the case of injury to minors whose action must be brought within a period of one (1) year after attaining the age of majority, whichever occurs sooner.   The foregoing limitation of actions shall not apply to any action resulting from exposure to asbestos or to the human implantation of silicone gel breast implants.    Any action against a manufacturer or seller for injury to a person caused by a silicone gel breast implant must be brought within a period not to exceed twenty-five (25) years from the date such product was implanted; provided, that such action must be brought within four (4) years from the date the plaintiff knew or should have known of the injury.   For purposes of this subsection (c) only, “seller” does not include a hospital or other medical facility where the procedure took place, nor does “seller” include the physician or other medical personnel involved in the procedure.   This subsection (c) only applies to causes of action not pending or decided on or before May 26, 1993. For the purposes of this subsection (c), a “pending case” is defined as a case actually filed by a silicone gel-filled breast implant recipient.
TN Code § 29-28-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 28 - Products Liability Actions|§ 29-28-104. Compliance With Government Standards — Rebuttable Presumption

  Compliance by a manufacturer or seller with any federal or state statute or administrative regulation existing at the time a product was manufactured and prescribing standards for design, inspection, testing, manufacture, labeling, warning or instructions for use of a product, shall raise a rebuttable presumption that the product is not in an unreasonably dangerous condition in regard to matters covered by these standards.   A manufacturer or seller, other than a manufacturer of a drug or device, shall not be liable for exemplary or punitive damages if:  The product alleged to have caused the harm was designed, manufactured, packaged, labeled, sold, or represented in relevant and material respects in accordance with the terms of approval, license or similar determination of a government agency; or   The product was in compliance with a statute of the state or the United States, or a standard, rule, regulation, order, or other action of a government agency pursuant to statutory authority, when such statute or agency action is relevant to the event or risk allegedly causing the harm and the product was in compliance at the time the product left the control of the manufacturer or seller.     Subsection (b) shall not apply if the claimant establishes that the manufacturer or seller:  At any time before the event that allegedly caused the harm, sold the product after the effective date of an order of a government agency that ordered the removal of the product from the market or withdrew the agency's approval of the product; or   In violation of applicable regulations, withheld or misrepresented to the government agency information material to the approval and such information is relevant to the harm which the claimant allegedly suffered.     The award of punitive or exemplary damages against a manufacturer of a drug or device shall be governed by § 29-39-104.
TN Code § 29-28-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 28 - Products Liability Actions|§ 29-28-105. Determination of Defective or Dangerous Condition

  A manufacturer or seller of a product shall not be liable for any injury to a person or property caused by the product unless the product is determined to be in a defective condition or unreasonably dangerous at the time it left the control of the manufacturer or seller.   In making this determination, the state of scientific and technological knowledge available to the manufacturer or seller at the time the product was placed on the market, rather than at the time of injury, is applicable. Consideration is given also to the customary designs, methods, standards and techniques of manufacturing, inspecting and testing by other manufacturers or sellers of similar products.   This section does not apply to an action based on express warranty or misrepresentation regarding the chattel.   A product is not unreasonably dangerous because of a failure to adequately warn of a danger or hazard that is apparent to the ordinary user.
TN Code § 29-28-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 28 - Products Liability Actions|§ 29-28-106. Seller's Liability

 No product liability action, as defined in § 29-28-102, shall be commenced or maintained against any seller, other than the manufacturer, unless:   The seller exercised substantial control over that aspect of the design, testing, manufacture, packaging or labeling of the product that caused the alleged harm for which recovery of damages is sought;   Altered or modified the product, and the alteration or modification was a substantial factor in causing the harm for which recovery of damages is sought;   The seller gave an express warranty as defined by title 47, chapter 2;   The manufacturer or distributor of the product or part in question is not subject to service of process in this state and the long-arm statutes of Tennessee do not serve as the basis for obtaining service of process; or   The manufacturer has been judicially declared insolvent.
TN Code § 29-28-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 28 - Products Liability Actions|§ 29-28-107. Complaint — Statement of Damages

 Any complaint filed in a products liability action shall state an amount of such suit sought to be recovered from any defendant.
TN Code § 29-28-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 28 - Products Liability Actions|§ 29-28-108. Product Altered or Abnormally Used

 If a product is not unreasonably dangerous at the time it leaves the control of the manufacturer or seller but was made unreasonably dangerous by subsequent unforeseeable alteration, change, improper maintenance or abnormal use, the manufacturer or seller is not liable.
TN Code § 29-29-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 29 - Quieting Title|§ 29-29-101. Persons Not in Being Made Defendants

 In any suit in equity brought in any court under its general equity jurisdiction to quiet, perfect, or adjudge the title to real estate, or to remove clouds from the title thereof, situated within the state, in which suit it is sought to determine the rights or claims of any person not in being, such person may be made defendant, and such parties defendant may be designated by general words of descriptions such as the unborn children or representatives of children of A. B. a living person.