Any person may also sue out an attachment in the chancery court, upon debts or demands of a purely legal nature, except causes of action founded on torts, without first having recovered a judgment at law, whenever the amount in controversy is sufficient to give the court jurisdiction.
Attachment by chancery on legal debts
Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-6-111, under Attachment and Replevy.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-6-111