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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 30-2-417

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Personal representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105

Where real property has been subjected to the payment of decedent‘s debts, and assets that should have been applied to the debts are afterwards discovered, or, for any reason, personal property of decedent, that should have been so applied afterwards comes to the hands of the personal representative, legatee or next of kin, the heir, devisee, or other person aggrieved, may maintain an action to procure reimbursement therefrom.