Title 66, Property

Upon completion of the contract or improvement and upon receipt of the contract price, the prime contractor shall deliver by registered mail or otherwise to the owner or owners of the real property a sworn affidavit and receipt substantially in the following form: State of Tennes…

(a) In the event that any materialmen's liens or mechanics' liens are perfected, filed or enforced under part 1 of this chapter against any real estate for transactions covered under §§ 66-11-203 and 66-11-205 and the contractor has not complied with §§ 66-11-203 and 66-11-205 or…

This part shall not operate to repeal or affect any of the laws of the state relating to mechanics' and materialmen's liens, specifically part 1 of this chapter, but shall be held and construed as ancillary and supplemental thereto.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a provision in any contract, subcontract or purchase order for the improvement of real property in this state is void and against public policy if it makes the contract, subcontract or purchase order subject to the substantive laws of ano…

A landlord and one controlling land by lease or otherwise shall have a lien on all crops grown on the land during the year for the payment of the rent for the year, whether the contract of rental be verbal or in writing, and this lien shall inure to the benefit of the assignee of…

A landlord and one controlling land by lease or otherwise shall have a like lien on all crops of tenants or sharecroppers, grown during the year on the land, for the payment of necessary food, household fuel, money and clothing supplied during the year to such tenant or sharecrop…

A landlord and one controlling land by lease or otherwise shall have a like lien on all crops of tenants or sharecroppers grown during the year on the land, for the payment of necessary fertilizer, implements, work stock, feed for stock, seed, labor and insecticide, furnished to …

The liens in §§ 66-12-101 — 66-12-103 shall all be upon equality, but all shall be superior to all other encumbrances, lien, levy, or contract, on the crops, regardless of the date of such other encumbrance, lien, levy, or contract.

The liens shall expire and be barred after July 1, following the crop year, unless a proceeding for its enforcement be commenced before that date.

(a) All of the crop liens may be enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction, by original suit, execution and levy, or by original suit, attachment and garnishment, and all or any number of demands may be joined in one (1) suit or each established in a separate suit. (b) Befo…

A purchaser, with or without notice, of a crop subject to any of such liens shall be liable to the lienholder for the value of the crop, or any part of it, so purchased, not, however, to exceed the amount of rent due and/or supplies furnished and costs incurred in collecting same…

Any factor, broker, commission merchant, or other person who sells the crop of a tenant or sharecropper, or any portion of it, with or without notice of such lien, before its bar, and applies the proceeds to the payment of the tenant's indebtedness to such seller, shall be liable…

If any person disposes of any crop or part thereof that is subject to any such landlord's lien, as provided in §§ 66-12-101 — 66-12-112, with the purpose of depriving the owners of any such indebtedness of the same or its proceeds, such person commits a Class C misdemeanor, wheth…

If the person so disposing of the property shall pay over to the lienor or owner of the debt so secured the proceeds of the sale, or sufficient thereof to satisfy the lien, or in case the owner of the debt shall have received or recovered from the purchaser of the property the va…

Nothing in §§ 66-12-101 — 66-12-112 shall affect the portion of the crop reserved as rent by the landlord of a sharecropper, or for the rent or use of land producing same, whether divided or undivided, it being the intention to treat the title to such portion of the crop as veste…

Should a tenant, by the consent and permission of the tenant's landlord, which consent and permission shall be in writing and signed by such landlord, sell the tenant's crop or any part thereof to any purchaser, upon which there exists a lien in favor of the landlord for either r…

When any person shall perform any labor or render services to another in accordance with a contract, written or verbal, for cultivating the soil, and shall produce a crop, such person shall have a lien upon the crop produced, which shall be the results of such person's labor, for…

The lien provided for in § 66-12-113 shall exist three (3) months from November 15 of the year in which the labor is performed; provided, that an account of such labor rendered be sworn to before some court of general sessions, or clerk of the court issuing the writ of attachment…

The lien provided for in § 66-12-113 shall not abridge or interfere with the landlord's lien for rent or supplies, but shall be second to the landlord's lien, and none other.

All employees and laborers of any corporation, or firm, carrying on any corporate or partnership business shall have a lien upon the corporate or firm property of every character and description, for any sums due them for labor and service performed for the corporation or firm, a…

The lien created in § 66-13-101 shall only extend to and protect those claims as may have accrued within three (3) months of the bringing of any suit for the enforcement of the lien, and shall continue during the pendency of any suit brought for its enforcement.

No corporation or partnership doing business in this state shall have the power to execute a mortgage or deed of trust or other instrument creating a lien upon the property of the corporation prior to that in favor of the employees and laborers, except to secure purchase money.

(a) Silversmiths, lock and gunsmiths, blacksmiths, watchmakers and repairers, and artisans generally, who do work for the public, shall have the common law lien, and the right, at the expiration of six (6) months from the time of the contract and the leaving with them of the good…

(a) The artisan shall give a written notice to the person for whose account the goods were repaired, and to any other person known to the artisan who claims an interest in the goods. This notice shall be given by delivery in person, or by registered mail addressed to the last kno…

(1) The notice shall contain:(1) An itemized statement of the artisan's claim and the date, or dates, when it became due;(2) A brief description of the goods against which the lien exists;(3) A demand that the amount of the claim as stated in the notice, and of such other claim a…

(a) In accordance with the terms of the notice provided for in § 66-14-102, a sale of the goods by auction may be had to satisfy the lien on the goods. The sale shall be had in the place where the lien was acquired, or, if such place is unsuitable for the purpose, at a convenient…

At any time before the goods are sold, any person claiming a right of property or possession therein may pay the artisan the amount necessary to satisfy the lien and pay the reasonable expenses and liabilities incurred in serving notice and advertisement and preparing for the sal…

If the goods are sold, from the proceeds of such sale the artisan shall satisfy such artisan's lien, including the reasonable charges of notice, advertisement, and sale. The balance, if any, of the proceeds shall be held by the artisan, and delivered on demand to the person to wh…

In addition to the method of enforcement of the artisans' lien provided in §§ 66-14-102 — 66-14-106, inclusive, such lien may be enforced, in the alternative, by the artisan complying with §§ 66-16-101 and 66-16-102, relating to launderers', cleaners' and storage liens.

(a) The charges and tolls of ginners are secured by a lien on all cotton ginned and baled by them, covering all ginning and baling charges. (b) The lien created by subsection (a) is second only to the landlord and furnishers liens. (c) The lien shall continue for six (6) months a…

(a) All persons or corporations engaged in the business of manufacturing, bleaching, mercerizing, dyeing, printing or finishing cotton, silk, artificial silk, wool, synthetic fibers or goods of which cotton, silk, artificial silk, wool or synthetic fibers form a component part, s…

(a) Typographers, printers, lithographers, photoengravers, electrotypers, stereotypers, bookbinders, and/or book manufacturers are given a lien on all type set by them, electrotype, stereotype, photoengraved or lithographic plates or stones made by them and on all plates, dies, e…

(a) If articles received for storage by a retail launderer or retail dry cleaner are not ordered from storage within sixty (60) days from the expiration of the storage date, as fixed upon the memorandum at the time the articles were received for storage, then a notice by register…

(a) If a garment or article left with a retail launderer or retail dry cleaner for laundering or dry cleaning is not redeemed by the customer within ninety (90) days, the launderer or dry cleaner may, without liability or responsibility for the article or garment, dispose of it a…

All keepers of hotels, boardinghouses, and lodging houses, whether licensed or not, shall have a lien on all furniture, baggage, wearing apparel, or other goods and chattels brought into any such hotel, boardinghouse, or lodginghouse, by any guest or patron of the same, to secure…

The lien shall attach in all cases where a liability has been created, without regard to the time of such board or lodging.

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Customer” means any individual or entity who causes or caused a molder to fabricate, cast or otherwise make a die, mold, form, or pattern or who provides a molder with a die, mold, form, or pattern to manufac…

(a) Molders, shall have a lien, dependent on possession, on all dies, molds, forms or patterns in their hands belonging to a customer, for the balance due them from such customer for any manufacturing or fabrication work, and in the value of all material related to such work. Suc…

A sale shall not be made under this chapter if it would be in violation of any right of a customer under federal patent or copyright law.

(1) There shall be a lien upon any type of conveyance used in the transportation of persons or merchandise either by land or by water or through the air, propelled by any sort of power, for any repairs or improvements made or parts or fixtures furnished at the request of the owne…

The lien shall be upon and include the conveyance and improvements thereon, and continue for twelve (12) months after the work is finished or repairs made or material furnished and until the final decision of any suit that may be brought within that time for the debt to the contr…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Garagekeeper” has the same meaning as defined in § 55-31-102;(2) “Rental vehicle company” means a person or entity, or a subsidiary or affiliate of a person or entity, including a franchisee, in the business of renting motor vehicles to the public…

(a) Before beginning any repair work on a motor vehicle, an automotive repair facility shall inform the consumer for whom the repairs are to be done of the following rights:(1) That a consumer:(A) May request a written estimate for repairs that cost in excess of two hundred fifty…

(a) Campgrounds substantially in the business of providing accommodations for recreational vehicles, as defined in § 55-50-102, shall be entitled to a lien upon all abandoned vehicles that lawfully come onto their premises. Such abandoned vehicles shall be retained in the campgro…

Any debt contracted by the master, owner, agent, or consignee of any boat within this state on account of any work done, or materials or articles furnished for the building, repairing, fitting, furnishing, or equipping of such boat, or for wages due to the employees of such debto…

(1) The pleading of the lienor shall be in writing, on oath, stating:(1) By whom and for what boat the debt was contracted;(2) The items composing the debt;(3) That it is justly due and unpaid; and(4) That demand has been made of one (1) of the defendants, or of the captain or ag…