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TN Code § 66-23-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 23 - Authentication of Instruments by Witnesses|§ 66-23-110. Witness Fees

  The witness fees, to be paid by the party summoning them, at the time of their attendance, shall be the following:  For each day's attendance, seventy-five cents (75¢); and   For every thirty (30) miles traveling to and from the clerk's office, seventy-five cents (75¢); provided, that no mileage shall be allowed a witness who resides within the county where the instrument is to be proved.     Should the party fail or refuse to pay the witness fees, the witness may recover the same before a general sessions court.    Code 1858, §§ 2060-2062 (deriv. Acts 1806, ch. 49, § 2; 1833, ch. 92, § 9); Shan., §§ 3737-3739; Code 1932, §§ 7652-7654; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2310.
TN Code § 66-23-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 23 - Authentication of Instruments by Witnesses|§ 66-23-111. Execution of Subpoena

 Any sheriff or constable, into whose hands the subpoena may come, shall execute it, without delay, on the witness or witnesses named in it, but not unless the party suing out the subpoena pay or tender to the sheriff or constable a fee of one dollar ($1.00) for summoning each witness.   Code 1858, § 2063 (deriv. Acts 1833, ch. 92, § 11); Shan., § 3740; Code 1932, § 7655; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2311.
TN Code § 66-23-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 23 - Authentication of Instruments by Witnesses|§ 66-23-112. Liability of Witness for Failure to Attend

 Should any witness, summoned as provided in § 66-23-108, fail or refuse to attend, that witness shall be subject to an action on the case for damages at the suit of the party by whom the witness was summoned.   Code 1858, § 2064 (deriv. Acts 1833, ch. 92, § 10); Shan., § 3741; Code 1932, § 7656; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2312.
TN Code § 66-23-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 23 - Authentication of Instruments by Witnesses|§ 66-23-113. Sheriff's Liability for Failure to Serve Subpoena

 If the sheriff fails or refuses to serve a subpoena for witnesses in such case, the sheriff shall be liable to a like action for damages, but not unless the sheriff's fees are tendered or paid.   Code 1858, § 2065 (deriv. Acts 1833, ch. 92, § 12); Shan., § 3742; Code 1932, § 7657; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2313.
TN Code § 66-23-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 23 - Authentication of Instruments by Witnesses|§ 66-23-114. Proof of Handwriting of Maker

 If all the subscribing witnesses are dead, insane, blind, or deaf and dumb, the instrument may be proved before the county clerk or deputy county clerk by any two (2) persons who are acquainted with the handwriting of the maker of the same.   Code 1858, § 2054 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 90, § 10); Shan., § 3729; Code 1932, § 7644; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2314.
TN Code § 66-23-115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 23 - Authentication of Instruments by Witnesses|§ 66-23-115. Proof by Handwriting of Maker or Witnesses

 If the person executing the instrument is dead, or resides or is beyond the limits of the United States and its territories, and the subscribing witnesses are dead, or have become insane or blind, or deaf and dumb, since they became subscribing witnesses, or they cannot be found, then the instrument may be proven for registration before any of the officers mentioned in § 66-23-101, by any two (2) persons acquainted with the handwriting of such maker or such witnesses.
TN Code § 66-23-116 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 23 - Authentication of Instruments by Witnesses|§ 66-23-116. Examination of Witnesses

 When the witness or witnesses appear before the clerk, the clerk shall propound to them such questions as the clerk may find requisite to establish the facts necessary to authenticate the instrument, whether it be the identity of the maker, the maker's handwriting, or the handwriting of a nonresident or deceased witness.   Code 1858, § 2057 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 90, § 2); Shan., § 3734; Code 1932, § 7649; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2316.
TN Code § 66-23-117 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 23 - Authentication of Instruments by Witnesses|§ 66-23-117. Form of Certificate of Probate

 If the subscribing witnesses appear before the clerk or deputy clerk of any county of the state, and prove the facts necessary to authenticate the instrument, the clerk shall write on the back or some other part of the instrument the following certificate:   State of Tennessee      )County of      )   Personally appeared before me,  , clerk (or deputy clerk) of the county of  aforementioned,  and  , subscribing witnesses to the within deed, who, being first sworn, deposed and said that they are acquainted with  , the bargainor (or as the case may be), and that the bargainor acknowledged the same, in their presence, to be the bargainor's act and deed upon the day it bears date (or stating the time as proved by the witnesses).   Witness my hand, at office, this  day of  , 20  .   Code 1858, § 2058 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 90, § 2); Shan., § 3735; Code 1932, § 7650; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2317.
TN Code § 66-23-118 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 23 - Authentication of Instruments by Witnesses|§ 66-23-118. Certificate Adapted to Mode of Proof

 The certificate of probate shall be varied so as to adapt it to the various modes of proof prescribed in this chapter.   Code 1858, § 2066; Shan., § 3743; Code 1932, § 7658; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2318.
TN Code § 66-23-119 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 23 - Authentication of Instruments by Witnesses|§ 66-23-119. Annexed Papers When Proof Made in Foreign Court

 If the instrument is proved by procuring the testimony of the witnesses to be entered of record in a court of record in one (1) of the United States or of a foreign country, there shall be endorsed upon or annexed to the deed a copy of the probate from the record, certified by the clerk or keeper of the records, under that officer's official seal, if there is one, or if not, under that officer's private seal, and the official character of the clerk or keeper of the records shall be certified by the presiding judge of the court.   Code 1858, § 2067 (deriv. Acts 1809 (Sept.), ch. 104); Shan., § 3744; Code 1932, § 7659; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2319.
TN Code § 66-23-120 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 23 - Authentication of Instruments by Witnesses|§ 66-23-120. Facts Shown in Foreign Certificate of Probate

 If the probate is taken outside the state, the certificate shall show the capacity in which the person who took the probate acted, and the state in which the probate was taken.   Code 1858, § 2068; Shan., § 3745; Code 1932, § 7660; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2320.
TN Code § 66-26-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration|§ 66-26-101. Effect of Instruments With or Without Registration

 All of the instruments mentioned in § 66-24-101 shall have effect between the parties to the same, and their heirs and representatives, without registration; but as to other persons, not having actual notice of them, only from the noting thereof for registration on the books of the register, unless otherwise expressly provided.   Code 1858, § 2072 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 90, §§ 6, 12; 1841-1842, ch. 12, § 2); Shan., § 3749; Code 1932, § 7665; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2601.
TN Code § 66-26-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration|§ 66-26-102. Notice to All the World

 All of the instruments registered pursuant to § 66-24-101 shall be notice to all the world from the time they are noted for registration, as prescribed in § 8-13-108; and shall take effect from such time.   Code 1858, § 2073 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 90, §§ 6, 12; 1841-1842, ch. 12, § 2); Shan., § 3750; Code 1932, § 7666; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2602.
TN Code § 66-26-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration|§ 66-26-103. Unregistered Instruments Void as to Creditors and Bona Fide Purchasers

 Any instruments not so registered, or noted for registration, shall be null and void as to existing or subsequent creditors of, or bona fide purchasers from, the makers without notice.   Code 1858, § 2075 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 90, § 12; 1841-1842, ch. 12, § 2); Shan., § 3752; mod. Code 1932, § 7668; C. Supp. 1950, § 7668; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2603; Acts 2005, ch. 303, § 2.
TN Code § 66-26-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration|§ 66-26-104. Rights as Between Transferee of Decedent and Purchaser From Heir or Devisee

 Any such instrument entitled to registration which is not duly registered prior to the expiration of sixty (60) days following the death of the maker of any such instrument shall be null and void as to innocent purchasers for a present valuable consideration from such person or persons as would, but for the execution of the instrument by the decedent, succeed to the rights of the decedent to such property in respect to which such unrecorded instrument was executed; provided, that the holder or any person entitled to the benefit of any such unrecorded instrument shall have a right of action against any such transferors for the reasonable value of any such property transferred, to the extent of the interest of the holder in the property, if brought within one (1) year of the recording of the instrument made by such transferors, if the instrument by which the transfer is made is required to be recorded for the protection of the purchaser under the laws of this state, otherwise the action shall be brought within one (1) year from the consummation of such sale or transfer.
TN Code § 66-26-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration|§ 66-26-105. Priority of Registered Instruments

 Any instruments first registered or noted for registration shall have preference over one of earlier date, but noted for registration afterwards; unless it is proved in a court of equity, according to the rules of the court, that the party claiming under the subsequent instrument had full notice of the previous instrument.   Code 1858, § 2074 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 90, § 6; 1841-1842, ch. 12, § 2); Shan., § 3751; Code 1932, § 7667; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2605.
TN Code § 66-26-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration|§ 66-26-106. Presumption as to Validity of Registration After Twenty Years

 Whenever a deed has been registered twenty (20) years or more, the same shall be presumed to have been properly acknowledged or proved, though the certificate of acknowledgement or probate has not been transferred to the registers book, and without regard to the form of the certificate; provided, that an acknowledgment to an instrument which has been of record in the register's office for a period of seven (7) years shall be presumed valid so as to comply with the form of acknowledgments set out in §§ 66-22-107 and 66-22-108.   Code 1858, § 2084 (deriv. Acts 1839-1840, ch. 26, § 9); Shan., § 3761; mod. Code 1932, § 7672; Acts 1969, ch. 200, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2606; Acts 2005, ch. 303, § 3.
TN Code § 66-26-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration|§ 66-26-107. Presumption as to Subscription by Grantor After Thirty Years

 Where a deed has been registered more than thirty (30) years, but the register has failed to register the name of the grantor or bargainor, it shall be presumed that the name of the grantor or bargainor was subscribed to the deed, and the registration shall be good; and in proving the time when a deed has been registered, the date upon the books may be referred to; or the register may certify the fact as it appears upon the register's books; or the time of registration may be established by parol testimony.   Code 1858, § 2085 (deriv. Acts 1839-1840, ch. 26, § 10); Shan., § 3762; Code 1932, § 7673; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2607.   Law Reviews.   The Tennessee Recording System (Toxey H. Sewell), 50 Tenn. L. Rev. 1 (1982).
TN Code § 66-26-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration|§ 66-26-108. Presumption as to Deeds by Attorneys After Twenty Years' Registration

 In all cases where a deed or deeds conveying real estate have been executed by any person or persons purporting to act as attorney or attorneys in fact, which deed or deeds have been registered, whether with or without proper probate or acknowledgment, or any probate or acknowledgment at all, twenty (20) years or more in the register's office of the county where the real estate is situated, or, if the land lay within the Indian territory at the time of the conveyance, if registered in the register's office of any county in the state, it shall be presumed, unless and until the contrary is shown, as it may be, that the conveyance was properly made by the attorney or attorneys in fact, and such deed or deeds, or certified copies from the register's books, shall be deemed valid to pass the legal title to real estate in the same manner as if the same had been executed by the principal or principals; provided, that nothing contained in this section shall affect the rights of creditors or purchasers for valuable consideration without notice.
TN Code § 66-26-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration|§ 66-26-109. Presumption as to Powers of Attorney After Twenty Years

 When a power or powers of attorney authorizing the sale or conveyance of real estate have been registered, whether with or without proper probate or acknowledgment, or any probate or acknowledgment at all, twenty (20) years or more in the register's office of the county where the real estate is situated, or, if the land lay within the Indian territory, then if registered in the register's office of any county in the state, such power or powers of attorney shall be deemed good and valid in law to pass the estate conveyed by the attorney or attorneys in fact; provided, that nothing contained in this section shall affect the rights of creditors or purchasers for valuable consideration, without notice.
TN Code § 66-26-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration|§ 66-26-110. Registered Instruments as Evidence — Presumptions and Burden of Proof Regarding Signatures on Instruments

  Any instruments so proved or acknowledged, certified and registered, shall be received as evidence in any of the courts, judicial and administrative tribunals of the state, subject, nevertheless, to be impeached and proved to be a forgery, or to be otherwise inoperative, if the fact be so.   In an action with respect to an instrument, the authenticity of and authority to make each signature on the instrument is admitted, unless specifically denied in the pleadings. If the validity of a signature is denied in the pleadings, and if the instrument is not registered or is not properly acknowledged or proved, the burden of establishing validity is on the person claiming validity, but the signature is presumed to be authentic and authorized, unless:  The signer is dead or incompetent at the time of trial on the issue of validity of the signature; and   The instrument is unregistered or has been registered for fewer than twenty (20) years.     Under the presumption set forth in subsection (b), the trier of fact must find that the signature is authentic and authorized, unless evidence to the contrary is introduced.    Code 1858, § 2071 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 90, § 6); Shan., § 3748; mod. Code 1932, § 7664; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2610; Acts 2005, ch. 303, § 4.
TN Code § 66-26-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration|§ 66-26-111. Proof of Instruments Registered Before 1839

 Every instrument authorized by law to be registered and proved or acknowledged, and registered prior to October 16, 1839, may be read in evidence:   Although the certificate only states that the deed was duly proved, without naming the subscribing witnesses by whom it was so proved; and in such case, the court shall presume that it was duly proved by all the subscribing witnesses, and the probate and registration shall be good, leaving it to the adverse party to disprove the fact;   Although the certificate is not and does not purport to be a transcript from the court minutes, if the certificate states enough to authorize the instrument to be registered; and in this case it shall be presumed that the entry on the minutes authorized the certificate by the clerk, unless the contrary be shown;   Although the certificate does not mention the term or style of the court at or in which the instrument was proved or acknowledged; and in this case, it shall be presumed that the instrument was proved or acknowledged in the court of which the person giving the certificate was clerk, and the certificate and registration shall be good, unless the contrary be shown;   Although the clerk, in the clerk's entry on the minutes and in the clerk's certificate on the document, has omitted to describe or mention the property; and in such case, the probate or acknowledgment and the registration shall be good;   Although the certificate only states that the deed was duly acknowledged, but not by whom; in which case, the instrument shall be presumed to have been acknowledged by the maker, and the acknowledgment and registration shall be good; and   No such probate or acknowledgment shall be void for want of sufficient certainty therein, if enough is contained on the face of it to identify the instrument to which it applies.    Code 1858, § 2086 (deriv. Acts 1839-1840, ch. 26, § 9); Shan., § 3763; Code 1932, § 7674; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2611.
TN Code § 66-26-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration|§ 66-26-112. Erroneous Recital as to County Where Land Located

 When a grant from the state for lands recites that the lands so granted are situated in one (1) county when they are in a different county, the grant shall be as valid as if the locality thereof were truly recited in the grant; and any subsequent conveyances of the lands in which they are stated to be situate in a different county from that in which they lie, may be registered in the county in which the lands lie, and such registration shall be valid as if the deeds of conveyance had correctly set forth the locality of the lands; provided, that nothing in this section and §§ 66-26-108 and 66-26-109 shall affect the rights of creditors or purchasers without notice.
TN Code § 66-26-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration|§ 66-26-113. Omission of Words From Certificate

 The unintentional omission by the clerk or other officer of any words in a certificate of an acknowledgment, or probate of any deed or other instrument, shall in nowise vitiate the validity of the deed, or other instrument or the acknowledgement or probate thereof, but the same shall be good and valid to all intents and purposes, if the substance of the authentication required by law is in the certificate.   Code 1858, § 2080 (deriv. Acts 1845-1846, ch. 77); Shan., § 3757; mod. Code 1932, § 7669; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2613; Acts 2005, ch. 303, § 5.
TN Code § 66-26-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration|§ 66-26-114. Correction of Omission

 If the omission is a matter of substance, the clerk or other officer, on application of either party interested, may correct such mistake or omission of words in such certificate on any such deed or other instrument.   Code 1858, § 2081 (deriv. Acts 1847-1848, ch. 119, § 1); Shan., § 3758; Code 1932, § 7670; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2614.
TN Code § 66-26-115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration|§ 66-26-115. Registration of Correction

 The register shall record the correction in the proper book of the register's office, and make a reference to the same on the margin opposite the original registry of the certificate.   Code 1858, § 2083 (deriv. Acts 1847-1848, ch. 119, § 3); Shan., § 3760; Code 1932, § 7671; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2615.
TN Code § 66-26-116 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration|§ 66-26-116. Instruments Granting, Transferring, Pledging or Assigning Lessors' Interests in Real Property

  Upon registration, in the county where the real property lies, of any instrument granting, transferring, pledging or assigning the lessor's interest in leases or rents arising from real property, the interest of the grantee, transferee, pledgee or assignee shall be fully perfected as to the grantor, transferor, pledgor or assignor and all third parties without the necessity of furnishing notice to the assignor or lessee, obtaining possession of the real property, impounding the rents, securing the appointment of a receiver, or taking any other affirmative action, and shall have the priority provided for in this chapter.   The lessee is authorized to pay the assignor until the lessee receives notification that rents due or to become due have been assigned and that payment is to be made to the assignee. A notification that does not reasonably identify the rents assigned is ineffective. If requested by the lessee, the assignee must seasonably furnish reasonable proof that the assignment has been made and unless the assignee does so the lessee may pay the assignor.   Any registered instrument granting, transferring, pledging or assigning an interest in leases or rents arising from real property shall, upon satisfaction, be released as provided in chapter 25 of this title and shall be subject to the penalties provided in such chapter.
TN Code § 66-30-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 30 - Residential Ground Rent Act|§ 66-30-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Residential Ground Rent Act.”
TN Code § 66-30-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 30 - Residential Ground Rent Act|§ 66-30-102. Chapter Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Obligee” means any person or entity to whom a residential ground rent is owed, including its successors and assigns;   “Obligor” means one (1) or more individuals who are obligated to pay a residential ground rent, including their successors, sublessees or assigns;   “Residential ground rent” means a rent or charge paid for the use of land, whether or not title thereto is transferred to the user, or a lease of land, for residential purposes:  Which is assignable by the obligor without the obligee's consent;   Which is for a term in excess of fifteen (15) years, including any rights of renewal at the option of the obligor;   Where the obligor has a present or future right to terminate such ground rent and to acquire the entire interest of the obligee in the land by the payment of a determined or determinable amount; and   Where the obligee's interest in the land is primarily a security interest to protect the obligee's right to be paid the rent or charge; and     “Residential purposes” means any use of land wherein the owner and/or the occupant thereof resides, including, but not limited to, the following uses: apartments, multi-family, single-family, duplexes and condominiums.