Tennessee Code 26-3-101 – Personalty levied on first
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 26-3-101
- Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- Lands: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
Executions shall be levied on the goods and chattels of the defendant, in the first instance, if any there be; but if, to the best of the officer’s knowledge, there be no such goods and chattels, or not sufficient to answer the plaintiff‘s demands, the same shall be executed upon the lands and tenements.