(a) The county clerk has the duty to take the probate or acknowledgment of all deeds and other instruments that are entitled to registration by law, and to certify the same for registration, and to demand and receive the state tax thereon, as specified in title 67, chapter 4, part 4.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 18-6-108

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(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

12,800

12,900

27,100

27,200

43,100

43,200

62,300

62,400

182,000

182,100
(c) In counties having a population of not less than thirty-nine thousand fifty (39,050) nor more than thirty-nine thousand one hundred fifty (39,150), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census, the circuit court clerk, who also serves as the general sessions court clerk, shall serve as the clerk of the court with probate jurisdiction in any such counties.
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