Terms Used In Tennessee Code 26-2-310

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Lands: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105

The officer shall certify upon the certificate of the freeholders that the same is their act and deed, and the debtor shall have the same registered in the register’s office of the county in which the lands lie, and, when so registered, it shall vest in the individual entitled to such homestead exemption, as herein provided, a good and valid title to the land exempt from execution.