Terms Used In Tennessee Code 43-18-104

  • 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.
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • 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

In addition to the punishment provided in § 43-18-103, and either before or after, with or without criminal prosecution above provided for, the owner of any loose cotton or ginned cotton that is unbaled, that is sold by another without the owner’s consent, can maintain and recover of any person buying such cotton who fails to comply with § 43-18-101 and § 43-18-102, a penalty of two hundred fifty dollars ($250), to be recovered by civil suit in any court having jurisdiction of the amount in this state. That amount is to be recovered by the owner of any cotton of the character described, sold to any person by any other than the owner without such owner’s consent, where the buyer does not keep and permit to be inspected the record of the purchase provided for in this section and §§ 43-18-101 – 43-18-103.