(a) A “retail installment transaction,” as defined in § 47-11-102, or any other conditional sales contract or other agreement covering the time sale of personal property or services, and the assignment thereof, and the business of selling such personal property and services on a time payment basis, and the business of purchasing or acquiring such transactions, contracts, or agreements, whether or not regulated under this chapter, shall not be deemed to be loans or forebearances of money or things of value or the making of same, nor shall they be regulated by or subject to title 45, chapter 5, parts 1-4.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 47-11-110

  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Services: means work or labor furnished, whether or not furnished in connection with the delivery, installation, servicing, repair or improvement of goods and includes repairs, alterations or improvements upon or in connection with real property. See Tennessee Code 47-11-102
  • transaction: means a contract to sell or furnish or the sale of or the furnishing of goods or services by a retail seller to a retail buyer pursuant to a retail installment contract or a retail charge agreement. See Tennessee Code 47-11-102
(b) “Personal property” and “services,” as used in this section, include all personal property and services, whether or not purchased for commercial or industrial use, and whether or not such personal property is affixed or to be affixed to real property so as to become a part thereof, whether or not severable from such real property.