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TN Code § 28-2-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 28 - Limitation of Actions|Chapter 2 - Limitation of Real Actions|§ 28-2-105. Adverse Possession — Assurance of Title

 Any person holding any real estate or land of any kind or any legal or equitable interest therein, and such person and those through whom such person claims having been in adverse possession of same for seven (7) years, where the real estate is held and claimed by such person or those through whom such person claims by a conveyance, devise, grant, a decree of a court of record, or other assurance of title purporting to convey an estate in fee, and such conveyance, devise, grant, or other assurance of title, has been recorded in the register's office of the county in which the land lies for a period of thirty (30) years or more or such decree entered on the minutes of such court for a period of thirty (30) years or more, is vested with an absolute and indefeasible title to such real estate or interest therein.
TN Code § 28-2-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 28 - Limitation of Actions|Chapter 2 - Limitation of Real Actions|§ 28-2-106. Action for Recovery Prohibited

 Where such land or interest therein is held as set out in § 28-2-105, no person, whether upon disability or not, nor the state of Tennessee, shall commence or sustain an action for the recovery of same in any court.
TN Code § 28-2-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 28 - Limitation of Actions|Chapter 2 - Limitation of Real Actions|§ 28-2-107. Rights Under Other Laws Preserved

 Nothing in § 28-2-105 or § 28-2-106 is to be construed as affecting any rights which any person may now or hereafter have under other laws in regard to limitation of actions for real estate where the limitation is for a period of less than thirty (30) years.
TN Code § 28-2-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 28 - Limitation of Actions|Chapter 2 - Limitation of Real Actions|§ 28-2-108. Subordinate Possession Not Adverse

 Possession is not adverse within the meaning of this chapter, as to any person claiming a right or interest in the land, when taken and continued under a title bond, mortgage or other instrument acknowledging that right or interest, or when taken and continued in subordination to the right or interest of another.   Code 1858, § 2768; Shan., § 4461; Code 1932, § 8589; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 28-208.
TN Code § 28-2-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 28 - Limitation of Actions|Chapter 2 - Limitation of Real Actions|§ 28-2-109. Presumption of Ownership From Payment of Taxes

 Any person holding any real estate or land of any kind, or any legal or equitable interest therein, who has paid, or who and those through whom such person claims have paid, the state and county taxes on the same for more then twenty (20) years continuously prior to the date when any question arises in any of the courts of this state concerning the same, and who has had or who and those through whom such person claims have had, such person's deed, conveyance, grant or other assurance of title recorded in the register's office of the county in which the land lies, for such period of more than twenty (20) years, shall be presumed prima facie to be the legal owner of such land.
TN Code § 28-2-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 28 - Limitation of Actions|Chapter 2 - Limitation of Real Actions|§ 28-2-110. Action Barred by Nonpayment of Taxes

  Any person having any claim to real estate or land of any kind, or to any legal or equitable interest therein, the same having been subject to assessment for state and county taxes, who and those through whom such person claims have failed to have the same assessed and to pay any state and county taxes thereon for a period of more than twenty (20) years, shall be forever barred from bringing any action in law or in equity to recover the same, or to recover any rents or profits therefrom in any of the courts of this state.   This section does not apply to persons under eighteen (18) years of age or to persons adjudicated incompetent if suit shall be brought by them, or any one claiming through them, within three (3) years after legal rights are restored.   Nothing in this section shall bar a person from bringing an action to contest the lapse of a mineral interest within the period provided by § 66-5-108(j).
TN Code § 28-2-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 28 - Limitation of Actions|Chapter 2 - Limitation of Real Actions|§ 28-2-111. Period of Validity of Liens — Extension

  Liens on realty, equitable or retained in favor of vendor on the face of the deed, also liens of mortgages, deeds of trust, and assignments of realty executed to secure debts, shall be barred, and the liens discharged, unless suits to enforce the same be brought within ten (10) years from the maturity of the debt.   Subsection (a) shall not apply to lands sold for school purposes, whereon liens have been retained for the payment of the purchase money, nor to persons under disability, until three (3) years after the removal of the same.   Original liens on realty retained in favor of vendors on the face of a deed, also original liens of mortgages, deeds of trust, and assignments of realty executed to secure debts, may be extended without their priority or legal effectiveness being in any way impaired, for any period of time agreed upon and beyond the ten-year period from the maturity of the obligation or debt, as provided for in subsection (a); such extension shall be evidenced by a written instrument, which shall, prior to or within ten (10) years from the maturity of the obligation or debt, be duly executed and acknowledged and be filed for record with the register of the county in which the realty affected is located and be there recorded, all in accordance with the statutes of this state in that regard; and when so filed for record such instrument of extension shall be constructive notice to all persons, as provided by the registration laws of this state; and such instrument shall contain a brief recital of the facts with reference to the original lien and shall provide that the lien shall continue, for a definite period of time in the future, to secure the remaining obligation or debt due under and secured by the original lien, and it shall not be necessary that there be any increase or decrease in the terms of the original obligation either of principal or interest.
TN Code § 28-2-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 28 - Limitation of Actions|Chapter 2 - Limitation of Real Actions|§ 28-2-112. Challenge of Title of Parcel Conveyed Pursuant to Tax Proceeding

  A person, and those claiming through such person, who receives title to a parcel conveyed pursuant to a tax proceeding is vested with an absolute and indefeasible title in fee in the parcel, unless a judicial action challenging the title of the parcel is filed in an appropriate court within three (3) years of the recording of the tax deed or order confirming the sale of the parcel in the office of the register of deeds for the county in which the parcel lies.   A person, and those claiming through such person, whether under disability or not, who fails or neglects to file a judicial action challenging the title of a parcel conveyed pursuant to a tax proceeding within three (3) years of the recording of the tax deed or order confirming the sale of the parcel in the office of the register of deeds for the county in which the parcel lies, is barred from challenging the title of the parcel.   The right to possession of a parcel pursuant to § 67-5-2503(a) constitutes adverse possession as to all other claimants of an interest in the parcel without any other action on the part of the person with the right to possession or the person's successors.   This section is applicable regardless of whether the instrument of conveyance in a tax proceeding is subsequently invalidated or declared void.   The three-year periods established in subsections (a) and (b) begin on July 1, 2017, as to parcels conveyed by tax deed or order confirming the sale prior to July 1, 2017.   Nothing in this section shall be construed to repeal or limit the application of § 67-5-2504.   As used in this section:  “Judicial action challenging the title of the parcel” includes actions to invalidate the title and actions to declare the instrument conveying the title void for any reason. “Judicial action challenging the title of the parcel” also includes motions, suits to quiet title or for declaratory judgment, and any other means or court proceeding by which the title to the parcel may be attacked; and   “Proceeding” has the same meaning as defined in § 67-5-2502(c)(1).
TN Code § 29-1-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 1 - General Provisions — Extraordinary Process|§ 29-1-101. Application of Equitable Remedies

 The provisions of this Code relating to injunctions, appointment of receivers, and other extraordinary process, apply equally to equity proceedings in any court.   Code 1858, § 3766; Shan., § 5547; Code 1932, § 9717; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-102.
TN Code § 29-1-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 1 - General Provisions — Extraordinary Process|§ 29-1-102. Injunction Pending Litigation

 In real actions, and in actions for the recovery of personal property in specie, the court in which the suit is pending may restrain the injury, removal, or destruction of the property by process of injunction, until the cause is finally disposed of.   Code 1858, § 3767; Shan., § 5548; Code 1932, § 9718; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-103.
TN Code § 29-1-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 1 - General Provisions — Extraordinary Process|§ 29-1-103. Receivers Pending Litigation

 The courts are all vested with power to appoint receivers for the safekeeping, collection, management, and disposition of property in litigation in such court, whenever necessary to the ends of substantial justice, in like manner as receivers are appointed by courts of chancery.   Code 1858, § 3768; Shan., § 5549; Code 1932, § 9719; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-104.
TN Code § 29-1-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 1 - General Provisions — Extraordinary Process|§ 29-1-104. Receiver's Bond

 The clerk and master, when so directed by the order of the judge or chancellor, shall take bond and security from the receiver, or the complainant, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of the receiver.   Code 1858, § 4453 (deriv. Acts 1833, ch. 47, § 1); Shan., § 6269; Code 1932, § 10559; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-106.
TN Code § 29-1-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 1 - General Provisions — Extraordinary Process|§ 29-1-105. Courts' Powers Over Extraordinary Process

 In all proper cases, also, any of the courts may use all other extraordinary process of the court of chancery, and in the same way as that court, when necessary to effect the ends of justice.   Code 1858, § 3769; Shan., § 5550; Code 1932, § 9720; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-107.
TN Code § 29-1-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 1 - General Provisions — Extraordinary Process|§ 29-1-106. Judges Granting Extraordinary Process

 Injunctions, attachments, except as otherwise provided, writs of ne exeat, and other extraordinary process are granted by the chancellors, circuit judges, and judges of criminal and special courts.   Code 1858, § 4434 (deriv. Acts 1835-1836, ch. 4, § 9); Acts 1871, ch. 49; Shan., § 6246; mod. Code 1932, § 10533; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-108.
TN Code § 29-1-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 1 - General Provisions — Extraordinary Process|§ 29-1-107. Statement as to First Application

 No such extraordinary process shall be granted, unless the party applying therefor state in the party's bill or petition that it is the first application for such process.   Code 1858, § 4435 (deriv. Acts 1821, ch. 7, § 1); Shan., § 6247; Code 1932, § 10534; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-109.
TN Code § 29-1-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 1 - General Provisions — Extraordinary Process|§ 29-1-108. Application After Refusal

 If any application is made for extraordinary process and refused, no other application shall be granted, except by the court in which the bill is filed.   Code 1858, § 4436; Shan., § 6253; Code 1932, § 10539; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-110.
TN Code § 29-1-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 1 - General Provisions — Extraordinary Process|§ 29-1-109. Endorsement of Refusal

 When an application is refused, the officer to whom the same is made shall endorse the refusal on the bill and sign the officer's name thereto, and anyone erasing such endorsement is guilty of, and may be punished for defacing a record.   Code 1858, § 4437; Shan., § 6254; Code 1932, § 10540; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-111.
TN Code § 29-1-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 1 - General Provisions — Extraordinary Process|§ 29-1-110. Transmission of Bill and Fiat to Clerk

 It is the duty of the judge, upon granting the fiat, to envelope the bill and fiat under seal, and direct to the clerk of the court in which the bill is filed, who alone is authorized to open the package.   Code 1858, § 4438 (deriv. Acts 1825, ch. 71, § 3); Shan., § 6255; Code 1932, § 10541; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-112.
TN Code § 29-1-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 1 - General Provisions — Extraordinary Process|§ 29-1-111. Scope of Provisions

 Sections 29-1-104 — 29-1-110 and Chapters 1 9 and 24 of this title will apply to all cases in any of the courts which may be resorted to for the extraordinary process provided for in this chapter.   Code 1858, § 4454; Shan., § 6270; Code 1932, § 10560; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-113.
TN Code § 29-2-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 2 - Statute of Frauds|§ 29-2-101. Writing Required for Action

  No action shall be brought:  To charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer any debt or damages out of such person's own estate;   To charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person;   To charge any person upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage;   Upon any contract for the sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or the making of any lease thereof for a longer term than one (1) year; or   Upon any agreement or contract which is not to be performed within the space of one (1) year from the making of the agreement or contract;  unless the promise or agreement, upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person lawfully authorized by such party. In a contract for the sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, the party to be charged is the party against whom enforcement of the contract is sought.       No action shall be brought against a lender or creditor upon any promise or commitment to lend money or to extend credit, or upon any promise or commitment to alter, amend, renew, extend or otherwise modify or supplement any written promise, agreement or commitment to lend money or extend credit, unless the promise or agreement, upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing and signed by the lender or creditor, or some other person lawfully authorized by such lender or creditor.   A promise or commitment described in subdivision (b)(1) need not be signed by the lender or creditor, if such promise or commitment is in the form of a promissory note or other writing that describes the credit or loan and that by its terms:  Is intended by the parties to be signed by the debtor but not by the lender or creditor;   Has actually been signed by the debtor; and   Delivery of which has been accepted by the lender or creditor.       For purposes of this section, a writing, or some memorandum or note thereof, includes a record.    Code 1858, § 1758 (deriv. Acts 1801, ch. 25, § 1); Shan., § 3142; Code 1932, § 7831; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-201; Acts 1989, ch. 88, § 1; 1997, ch. 272, § 2; 2006, ch. 810, § 1.
TN Code § 29-3-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 3 - Abatement of Nuisances|§ 29-3-102. Jurisdiction to Abate

 The jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the chancery, circuit, and criminal courts and any court designated as an environmental court pursuant to Chapter 426 of the Public Acts of 1991, Chapter 212 of the Public Acts of 1993 or Chapter 667 of the Public Acts of 2002 to abate the public nuisances defined in § 29-3-101, upon petition in the name of the state, upon relation of the attorney general and reporter, or any district attorney general, or any city or county attorney, or without the concurrence of any such officers, upon the relation of ten (10) or more citizens and freeholders of the county wherein such nuisances may exist, in the manner herein provided.
TN Code § 29-3-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 3 - Abatement of Nuisances|§ 29-3-103. Filing of Bill — Parties

 When a public nuisance, as defined in § 29-3-101, is kept, maintained, carried on, or exists in any county, a bill or petition may be filed in any chancery, circuit, or criminal court of such county, in the name of the state, by and upon the relation of the respective officers or persons named in § 29-3-102, against the person keeping, maintaining, or carrying on such nuisance, and all aiders and abettors therein, and the owners, proprietors, or agents or persons or corporations in charge or control of the building or place wherein such nuisance exists, for the purpose of having such nuisance abated and permanently discontinued. In addition, petitions under this chapter for the abatement of gang related conduct may be brought against the gang itself to which the gang members belong.
TN Code § 29-3-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 3 - Abatement of Nuisances|§ 29-3-104. Bond of Relators

 Where such bill or petition is filed by citizens and freeholders, they shall make bond, in such sum as the judge or chancellor shall prescribe, conditioned to pay all costs and damages in the event the court trying the case shall adjudge that the proceeding was instituted without probable cause; but no bond for costs or damages shall be required where the proceeding is instituted by and upon the relation of the attorney general and reporter or a district attorney general or a county or a city attorney.
TN Code § 29-3-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 3 - Abatement of Nuisances|§ 29-3-105. Temporary Injunction

  In such proceeding, the court, or a judge or chancellor in vacation, shall, upon the presentation of a bill or petition therefor, alleging that the nuisance complained of exists, award a temporary writ of injunction, enjoining and restraining the further continuance of such nuisance, and the closing of the building or place wherein the same is conducted until the further order of the court, judge, or chancellor.   The award of a temporary writ of injunction shall be accompanied by such bond as is required by law in such cases, in case the bill is filed by citizens and freeholders; but no bond shall be required when such is filed by the officers provided for, if it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the court, judge or chancellor, by evidence in the form of a due and proper verification of the bill or petition under oath, or of affidavits, depositions, oral testimony, or otherwise, as the complaints or petitioners may elect, that the allegations of such bill or petition are true.
TN Code § 29-3-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 3 - Abatement of Nuisances|§ 29-3-106. Notice of Hearing — Effect of Injunction — Ex Parte Writ

   Five (5) days' notice in writing shall be given the defendant of the hearing of the application; and if then continued at defendant's instance, the writ as prayed for shall be granted as a matter of course.   Notwithstanding subsection (c), if a defendant, who is the owner of the property and not the person keeping, maintaining, or carrying on the nuisance, demonstrates that the defendant was unaware of the nuisance prior to receiving the notice required by this subsection (a), and that the defendant has voluntarily taken steps after receiving notice to abate the nuisance without the involvement of the court, the court may dismiss the petition or continue the action pending further action by the defendant.     When the injunction shall have been granted, it shall be binding upon the defendant throughout the county until modified or set aside by the court, judge, or chancellor having cognizance of the case; and any violation of the injunction by the defendant, or upon defendant's procurement, shall be a contempt of court and punished as hereinafter provided.   When a bill or petition is made by any of the respective officers named in § 29-3-102 and supported by affidavit that there is probable cause to believe that a public nuisance exists, neither notice of the application nor of the hearing shall be required before the court may grant the writ, ex parte. A hearing shall be conducted within five (5) days following the execution of the writ closing and padlocking the premises, or the writ shall expire. Notice of the hearing shall be given to the defendant. If the defendant seeks to continue the hearing on the temporary injunction beyond the five-day period, the temporary injunction shall remain in effect.
TN Code § 29-3-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 3 - Abatement of Nuisances|§ 29-3-107. Voluntary Dismissal — Substitution of Relators

  No such proceeding shall be voluntarily dismissed except upon a written, sworn statement of the relator or relators of the reasons for dismissal.   If such reasons are not satisfactory to the court, or the court shall be of opinion that the proceeding ought not to be dismissed, it may order the same to proceed, and may substitute another relator or relators willing to act as such, either with or without bond, in the court's discretion.
TN Code § 29-3-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 3 - Abatement of Nuisances|§ 29-3-108. Time of Trial

 Proceedings under §§ 29-3-101 — 29-3-111 shall be triable at the first term after due notice or service of process, and shall, in the chancery and circuit courts, be given precedence over all other causes.
TN Code § 29-3-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 3 - Abatement of Nuisances|§ 29-3-109. Discovery

 Discovery may be permitted under the rules of civil procedure consistent with a scheduling order entered by the court upon motion of any party or upon the court's own initiative. Discovery shall not disrupt the effect of the temporary injunction issued under § 29-3-105 or § 29-3-106, and neither the identity nor the location of a confidential informant used to establish gang membership under § 29-3-101(a)(2) shall be discoverable.
TN Code § 29-3-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 3 - Abatement of Nuisances|§ 29-3-111. Penalty for Violation

  If any person breaks into, enters, or uses any building or place while closed under a preliminary injunction granted under §§ 29-3-101 — 29-3-111, violates any permanent injunction granted under such sections, or knowingly violates any temporary or permanent gang injunction, such person commits a Class C misdemeanor.   As used in this section, “knowingly” refers to the mental state as described in § 39-11-302.