Title 16, Courts

(a) The county court to be held by the county judge shall be deemed always open for the transaction of any business and the exercise of any jurisdiction conferred upon the county judge or upon the court held by the county judge. (b) Subsection (a) shall only apply in counties hav…

(a) The county judge is not precluded from practicing in the supreme, chancery, circuit, and criminal courts of this state, but shall not act as counsel in any case going up from the judge's court. (b) Subsection (a) shall only apply in counties having a population, according to …

(a) (1) The county court has original jurisdiction in the following cases:(A) The probate of wills;(B) The granting of letters testamentary and of administration, and the repeal and revocation of letters testamentary and of administration;(C) All controversies in relation to the …

(a) The county court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the chancery and circuit courts to sell real estate of decedents and for distribution or partition. The mode of procedure in those cases in the county courts shall conform in every respect to the rules and regulations l…

(a) The county court is expressly vested, over all subjects enumerated in §§ 16-16-107 and 16-16-108, with all the power and authority necessary and proper to the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred. (b) Subsection (a) shall only apply in counties having a population, accordin…

(a) The court may, pursuant to § 16-16-109, appoint commissioners to make sale of real or personal property, taking bond and security for the faithful performance of duty, when deemed necessary; may revise, set aside, or confirm the proceedings of the commissioners, as such other…

(a) When land is sold by any order or decree of the county court, and the sale reported by the clerk and confirmed by the court, the county court shall have the same power and jurisdiction over the cause against the purchaser as the chancery court has by law, notwithstanding the …

(a) Jurisdiction is conferred upon the county court to enforce vendors' liens and foreclose mortgages upon all sums under fifty dollars ($50.00), and also to enforce all liens on all sums under fifty dollars ($50.00) in such cases as the chancery court alone would have jurisdicti…

(a) The county court shall have the same power to issue writs of possession to put the purchaser in possession in all cases that the chancery court has and shall be governed by the same rules. (b) Subsection (a) shall only apply in counties having a population, according to the 2…

(a) The court has also original jurisdiction over bastardy and bastards, and general supervision of bastards. (b) Subsection (a) shall only apply in counties having a population, according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census, of: not less than not more tha…

(a) The county court is, in cases of concurrent jurisdiction, vested with all the incidental powers belonging to or conferred by law upon the court with which its jurisdiction is concurrent, for the purpose of exercising and effectuating such jurisdiction. (b) Subsection (a) shal…

(a) The county clerk shall be the clerk of the court held by the county judge. (b) Subsection (a) shall only apply in counties having a population, according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census, of: not less than not more than 12,80012,90027,10027,20043,10…

(a) The mode of procedure in the county court, where the jurisdiction is concurrent either with the circuit or chancery court, shall be as near as may be, according to the rules laid down for the conduct of similar business in those courts. (b) Subsection (a) shall only apply in …

(a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court, all process shall be returnable to the first Monday coming five (5) days after the service of such process. (b) Subsection (a) shall only apply in counties having a population, according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent feder…

(a) In the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred by § 16-16-107, by title 33, or by [former] title 34, chapter 10, the county judge may, in the county judge's discretion, by general or special orders of reference, refer questions of fact to the county clerk, for taking of proof,…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Adjudication as a mental defective or adjudicated as a mental defective” means:(A) A determination by a court in this state that a person, as a result of marked subnormal intelligence, mental illness, incompetency, condition or disease:(i) Is a da…

(a) A person who is subject to 18 U.S.C. § 922(d)(4) and (g)(4), § 39-17-1307(i), or § 39-17-1316(q)(4) because the person has been adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution, as defined in § 16-16-120, may petition the county or probate cou…

(a) In all counties where not otherwise specifically provided by public, private, special or local acts, all jurisdiction relating to the probate of wills and the administration of estates of every nature, including the estates of decedents and of wards under guardianships or con…

All sections of Tennessee Code Annotated conferring jurisdiction in probate and related matters in the county courts, the county judge or county chair hereafter shall be construed to be applicable to the chancery court in those counties of the state to which this part applies and…