Terms Used In Tennessee Code 29-32-108

  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.

All scire facias issued on conditional judgments and decrees rendered by any of the courts of this state on forfeited bonds, recognizances, subpoenas, summons, and other like obligations may be substantially in the following form, to wit:

State of Tennessee, county of ______________

To the sheriff [or coroner, as the case may be] of the county:

You are hereby commanded in the name of the state to notify ______________ and ______________ that a conditional judgment was rendered against them in the circuit court [or whatever court it may be] of ______________ county, for the sum of $____________________ and costs on a forfeited bond [or recognizance, or whatever obligation it is], and the same will be made final unless you appear at the next term of court [or whatever the time may be under the order of the court], and show cause to the contrary.

Signed by the clerk, etc., with proper endorsement as to date of, etc.