Title 29, Remedies and Special Proceedings

(a) When such condemnation is fully completed, the award, whether made by a jury of view or the verdict of a jury, together with the decree of the court based thereon and a minute description of the property or interest condemned, or a duly certified copy of such award, decree an…

This part shall not be construed as repealing any provisions of other statutes prescribing a method of procedure for the condemnation of private property, but as supplementary thereto and cumulative thereof in cases in which the state or any county or the United States is concern…

(a) When a governmental entity or other person or entity with the power of eminent domain deems it necessary to condemn any property or property rights pursuant to this chapter or chapter 16 of this title, it shall deposit the amount determined by the required appraisal with the …

Section 29-17-801 shall apply only to condemnation proceedings instituted by the state of Tennessee, its counties, or municipalities, and shall not apply to any housing authority, association, or administration.

(a) (1) The state of Tennessee, its counties or municipalities are hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, in the manner hereinafter set out, such right-of-way, land, material, easements and rights as may be deemed necessary, sui…

When a governmental entity or a levee or drainage district authorized to condemn by § 29-17-901(a)(2) deems it necessary or desirable to condemn any property or property rights as set out in § 29-17-901, it shall proceed to determine what it deems to be the amount of damages to w…

(a) When a governmental entity or other person or entity with the power of eminent domain deems it necessary to condemn any property or property rights pursuant to this chapter or chapter 16 of this title, it shall deposit the amount determined by the required appraisal with the …

If the owner is satisfied with the amount deposited by the condemner with the clerk of the court, the owner may file with the clerk a statement, duly sworn to, stating that the filer is the owner of the property or property rights described in the petition and that the owner acce…

If the owner is not satisfied with the amount assessed by the condemner, the owner shall, on or before the second day of the regular term of the court next, after the serving of such notice, appear, except to the amount assessed by the condemner, and thereupon a trial may be had …

If the owner asks for a trial as provided by § 29-17-905, the owner may, if desired, make written request to the clerk to pay to the owner, without prejudice to the rights of either party, the sum so deposited with the clerk, and the clerk shall pay to the owner the sum so deposi…

If the owner does not appear and accept the amount deposited by the condemner as provided in § 29-17-904 or does not appear and ask for a trial as provided by § 29-17-905, then the petition shall be taken as confessed and the case set for hearing upon the record and in the absenc…

The only issue or question that shall be tried upon exception shall be the amount of compensation to be paid for the property or property rights taken, but in case of adverse claimants of such compensation, the court may require the adverse claimants to interplead, so as to fully…

If any person who is proper party defendant in the petition shall have been omitted from the petition, amendments to the same may be filed, which amendments, from the filing of the same, shall have the same effect as though contained in such petition.

In all instances the amount to which an owner is entitled shall be determined by ascertaining the fair cash market value of the property or property rights taken and adding to the same the amount of incidental damage done to the residue of the owner's property, if any, after dedu…

When any building or structure is situated wholly or in part upon the land sought to be acquired, the condemner may remove the same to adjoining land of the owner or may divide the same upon the line between the land sought to be acquired and the adjoining land, or may tear down …

(a) (1) If the amount of compensation awarded at the trial shall exceed the amount assessed by the condemner and deposited with the clerk, then the bill of costs prepared by the clerk shall be taxed against the condemner. If the amount of compensation awarded at the trial is not …

(a) All judgments rendered against a municipality, county or the state shall be paid out of the general funds of the municipality, county or state, whichever may be the condemner, together with interest at the rate of two percentage points (2%) greater than the prime loan rate es…

This part is not intended to repeal any existing statute relating to eminent domain, but is intended to be an accumulative or supplementary method of acquiring property by eminent domain proceedings.

No person shall enter upon any lands, tenements, or other possessions, and detain or hold the same, but where entry is given by law, and then only in a peaceable manner.

(a) A forcible entry and detainer is where a person, by force or with weapons, or by breaking open the doors, windows, or other parts of the house, whether any person be in it or not, or by any kind of violence whatsoever, enters upon land, tenement, or possession, in the occupat…

A forcible detainer is where a person enters lawfully or peaceably, and holds unlawfully, and by any of the means enumerated in § 29-18-102 as constituting a forcible entry.

Unlawful detainer is where the defendant enters by contract, either as tenant or as assignee of a tenant, or as personal representative of a tenant, or as subtenant, or by collusion with a tenant, and, in either case, willfully and without force, holds over the possession from th…

Sections 29-18-101 — 29-18-104 extend to and comprehend terms for years, and all estates, whether freehold or less than freehold.

Where the action is to recover real property, ejectment, or forcible or unlawful entry or detainer may be brought.

All cases of forcible entry and detainer, forcible detainer, and unlawful detainer, may be tried before any one (1) judge of the court of general sessions of the county in which the acts are committed, who shall decide the particular case, and all questions of law and fact arisin…

The action for the recovery of the possession of land, given in this chapter, may also be originally instituted in the circuit court, the same forms being substantially pursued as those prescribed, the process being issued by the clerk, the plaintiff first giving bond and securit…

The uninterrupted occupation or quiet possession of the premises in controversy by the defendant, for the space of three (3) entire years together, immediately preceding the commencement of the action, is, if the estate of the defendant has not determined within that time, a bar …

(a) The heir or representative of the person who might have been plaintiff, if alive, may bring the suit after the potential plantiff's death. (b) If either party die during the pendency of the suit, it may be revived by or against the heirs or legal representatives of the decede…

The party complaining is required, before the issuance of the writ, to give bond, with good security, to pay all costs and damages which shall accrue to the defendant for the wrongful prosecution of the suit.

The warrant may be issued by a single general sessions judge in the following form:State of Tennessee,To the sheriff or any constable of such county: County.Whereas, complaint is made to me by A B, of a certain forcible and unlawful entry and detainer, made by C D, into and of a …

No notice to quit need be given by the plaintiff to the defendant, other than the service of this warrant.

The warrant need not set forth the particular species of entry or detainer, and any defect therein, or in any of the proceedings, may be amended as other process and pleadings in court.

(a) (1) In commencing an action under this chapter, summons may be served upon any adult person found in possession of the premises, which includes any adult person occupying the premises; and service of process upon such party in possession shall be good and sufficient to enable…

Any officer neglecting or refusing to execute any process, under this chapter, shall forfeit two hundred fifty dollars ($250) to the party aggrieved, to be recovered with costs before any tribunal having jurisdiction thereof.

The officer serving the warrant shall notify the defendant of the time and place of trial, the time not to be less than six (6) days from the date of service.

The general sessions judge may, at the request of either party, and on good reason being assigned, postpone the trial to any time not exceeding seven (7) days. The postponement shall not be for a longer period of time unless agreed upon by the parties, no civil court is being con…

(a) The cause shall be tried at the time and place designated, by a single general sessions judge, without the intervention of a jury, and in all respects like other civil suits before the court of general sessions. (b) The general sessions judge will try every case upon its meri…

(a) Actions originally instituted in the circuit court will stand for trial at the first term after the pleadings are complete. (b) The jury, if it finds for the plaintiff, will ascertain the damages the plaintiff has sustained, including rent, and judgment shall be given accordi…

The general sessions judge before whom the complaint is made, or the one before whom the cause is to be tried, may issue subpoenas for witnesses into any county of the state.

(a) The general sessions judge is entitled to one dollar ($1.00) per day for trying cases of forcible entry and detainer, forcible detainer, or unlawful detainer. (b) The officer is entitled to two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) for each defendant named in the original process, …

(a) Any person, granting a lease of lands, tenements, and hereditaments, may incorporate or take from the tenant a bond covenanting to deliver possession of the rented premises on the day specified therein as the end of the term of the lease, and further authorizing the party fro…

The judgment for the plaintiff should be endorsed on the warrant or annexed thereto, substantially to the following effect: A B Judgment for the plaintiff, that plaintiff be restored to possession of the land v. described in the within warrant, and that a writ of possessionC D or…

In all cases of forcible entry and detainer, forcible detainer, and unlawful detainer, the judge of the court of general sessions trying the cause shall be authorized and it shall be the judge's duty to ascertain the arrearage of rent, interest, and damages, if any, and render ju…

No execution or writ of possession shall issue against the defendant upon any judgment, under this chapter, until after the lapse of ten (10) days from the rendition of the judgment.

(a) The execution for costs shall issue in the usual form, and the writ of possession may be as follows:State of Tennessee,To the sheriff or any constable of such county: County.Whereas, at a trial of forcible and unlawful detainer had in such county on the day of , 20, before E …

An appeal will also lie in suits commenced before general sessions judges, under this chapter, within the ten (10) days allowed by § 27-5-108, as in other cases, the appellant, if the defendant, giving bond as required by law.