Title 66, Property

After a seizure of a boat at the suit of one (1) or more creditors and/or claimants, no other creditors and/or claimants shall have process to attach the boat, but all of them may be made parties, as prescribed in § 66-19-203.

If no bond has been given, the court shall, at the appearance term, order the boat, or such part of the furniture and tackle as may be sufficient, to be sold for the satisfaction of the judgment; and the sheriff shall accordingly sell the same, first advertising the time and plac…

Where there are prior liens on the boat by judgments obtained by the general creditors of the owners, the sheriff shall attach the boat, subject to such prior liens, and when the boat is sold to satisfy such prior liens, the surplus, if any, shall be paid into court, where the at…

If the proceeds of the boat, tackle, and furniture are not sufficient to pay off all the creditors who have joined in the suit, the proceeds shall be ratably divided among them.

The owners and/or proprietors of wharves and landings, where wharfage is allowed by law, have a lien on boats, rafts, and other water crafts, and their loading, for the payment of their wharfage fees, and the same may be enforced by attachment within three (3) months after the li…

(a) A marina shall be entitled to a lien upon any vessel or personal watercraft, which lawfully comes into the marina's possession and is retained pending payment of all reasonable charges due. IF three (3) months or more have elapsed since the contractually-prescribed due date f…

(a) (1) A marina has a lien on a floating cabin for any assessment levied against the floating cabin pursuant to a written lease or service contract between the marina and the owner of the floating cabin from the time the assessment becomes due, which lien may be enforced by judi…

(a) A lien against any type of conveyance used in the transportation of persons or merchandise through the air, propelled by any sort of power, asserted pursuant to § 66-19-101, shall be filed with the register for the county in which the actions giving rise to the lien occurred,…

(a) The lien created by § 66-19-101 also extends to any aircraft engine, aircraft propeller, and any other part or spare part used in, or which under normal circumstances would be used in, an aircraft, aircraft engine or aircraft propeller, whether or not any such component has b…

When any horse or other animal is received to pasture for a consideration, the farmer shall have a lien upon the animal for the farmer's proper charges, the same as the innkeeper's lien at common law; and in addition the farmer shall have a statutory lien for six (6) months.

(a) Where the lien for pasturage shall occur in virtue of § 66-20-101, the charges shall include also those for the service of any jack, bull, ram, or boar; provided, that the charge for the service of such animal to the female shall have been agreed upon between the parties. (b)…

Livery stable keepers shall be entitled to the same lien provided for in § 66-20-101 on all stock received by them for board and feed, or vehicle kept and/or conditioned, until all reasonable charges are paid.

(a) Any person keeping a jack, bull, ram, or boar, for public use, shall have a lien on the offspring of the same for the season charge to be paid. (b) This section shall likewise include the service of any stud or stallion.

(a) The lien provided for in § 66-20-104, so far as it affects the offspring of jacks and bulls shall exist for two (2) years from the birth of such offspring and so far as it affects rams and boars shall continue for twelve (12) months from the birth of such offspring. (b) This …

Commercial feed lot proprietors and operators shall be entitled to the same lien provided for in § 66-20-101 on all livestock received by them covering all reasonable charges in caring for, boarding, feeding, or pasturing such livestock, until the same have been paid.

(a) When any female animal is inseminated by artificial means for a fee, the person providing the service shall have for a charge a lien on the female and on any offspring resulting from such service. (b) The duration of the lien on offspring shall be for twelve (12) months from …

Any and all liens given by statute on personal property, except attorney's lien, where no method of enforcing the same is specifically prescribed by statute, may be enforced by original attachment issued by any court having jurisdiction of the amount claimed to be due without nec…

It is imperative that the county legislative body purchase and furnish to the register of each county a well-bound book to be known as and labeled “Lien Book,” in which all pages shall be blank except the index pages described in § 66-21-103.

(a) The register shall enter in the notebook the time of reception, and record in the lien book or a combined lien book, all abstracts, memoranda or certified copies of judgments, decrees, lis pendens, mechanics' or furnishers' liens, and such other liens as are required or autho…

(a) The register shall note in the notebook the date, hour and minute of receiving each instrument evidencing or releasing a lien. (b) In any county having a population of not less than thirty-two thousand six hundred (32,600) nor more than thirty-two thousand seven hundred (32,7…

(a) As used in this section, “public official” means:(1) An individual who is a current, former, or retired elected or appointed government official, including a state, county, metropolitan, or municipal official;(2) An individual who is the head of a division or major unit or de…

If the plaintiff, complainant, lienor or owner of any lien filed and registered pursuant to this part fails, neglects or refuses to release a lien that is satisfied, within fifteen (15) days after written demand of the defendant or lienee, such person shall be liable to the penal…

Any original instrument evidencing a lien filed under prior law shall be maintained until released or until the lien has lapsed.

A copy of the abstract, memorandum or copy, as released or unreleased, certified by the register, shall be received as evidence in any court or tribunal.

(1) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, if due to the filing of a bankruptcy petition under title 11 of the United States Code (11 U.S.C.), a creditor is stayed from filing the necessary documents to create or enforce a lien or security interest against the debtor's pr…

In any county having a population of not less than thirty-two thousand six hundred (32,600) nor more than thirty-two thousand seven hundred (32,700) according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census the record of liens so provided may be released by the plaint…

(a) Notices of liens for taxes or other obligations payable to the United States, and certificates discharging and notices affecting such liens, including certificates of redemption relating to the liens, shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county with…

When notice of the lien is filed, the register shall forthwith enter the same in an alphabetical federal lien index, or the lien book, showing on one (1) line the name and residence of the lien debtor named in such notice, the serial number of such notice, the date and hour of fi…

The federal lien index, or lien book in lieu, and file or files for the federal lien notices shall be furnished to the county register in the manner now provided by law for the furnishing of books in which deeds are recorded.

When a certificate of discharge of any lien or certificate of redemption issued by the director of the internal revenue service or other proper officer is recorded in the office of the register where the original notice of lien is recorded, the register shall enter the same with …

This part applies to federal tax liens and to all other federal lien notices, including certificates of redemption, which, under any act of congress or any regulation adopted pursuant thereto, are required or permitted to be recorded in the same manner as notices of federal tax l…

This part shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.

(a) Unless otherwise provided by law, to authenticate an instrument or document for registration or recording in the office of the county register, the maker or the natural person acting on behalf of the maker shall execute the instrument or document by that person's original sig…

If the person executing the instrument resides or is within the state, the acknowledgment shall be made before the county clerk, or legally appointed deputy county clerk, or clerk and master of chancery court of some county in the state or before a notary public of some county in…

(1) If the person executing the instrument resides or is beyond or without the limits of the state, but within the union or its territories or districts, the acknowledgment may be made:(1) Before any court of record, or before the clerk of any court of record; or, before a commis…

(a) If the person executing the instrument resides or is beyond the limits of the union and its territories, the acknowledgment may be made:(1) Before a commissioner for Tennessee appointed in the country where the acknowledgment is made, having an official seal;(2) Before a nota…

The probate or acknowledgment of any deed or other instrument, made by or to a clerk of any county, may be taken and made before the judge having probate jurisdiction in the clerk's county, the clerk and master or the notary public, and the authentication entered on record in the…

(a) If the clerk or deputy clerk does not know, is not personally acquainted with, or does not have satisfactory evidence of a person wishing to make acknowledgment of the execution of an instrument, the clerk or deputy clerk shall file it, and note, on the record of the probate …

(a) If the acknowledgment is made before a county clerk or deputy, or clerk and master, or notary public, or before any of the officers out of the state who are commissioned or accredited to act at the place where the acknowledgment is taken, and having an official seal, viz: tho…

(a) The authentication or acknowledgment for record of a deed or other instrument in writing executed by a corporation, whether it has a seal or not, shall be good and sufficient, when made in substantially the following form: State of Tennessee )County of ) Before me, of the sta…

The acknowledgment of a married person, when required by law, may be taken in the same form as if such person were sole and without any examination separate and apart from that person's spouse.

All acknowledgments shall be under the seal of office of the officer taking same.

(1) The clerk shall enter, in a well-bound book, the probate or acknowledgment of every deed or other instrument of writing proved or acknowledged before the clerk, which entry shall state:(1) The date of the presentation of the paper where it is filed with the clerk, but is not …

(1) For the clerk's services in this behalf, the clerk shall have the following fees:(1) For issuing a subpoena for each witness required to be summoned to prove the execution of a writing $ .25(2) For filing and entering the date of the presentation of a deed or other instrument…

If the clerk or other officer who takes the probate or acknowledgment of a deed or other instrument fails or refuses to comply with and discharge the duties required of the clerk or officer, the clerk or officer shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) for the …

(a) If the acknowledgment is made before any of the officers who are authorized to take such acknowledgment under this chapter or any consular officer of the United States having an official seal, such officer shall write upon or annex to the instrument a certificate of acknowled…