Terms Used In Tennessee Code 5-2-113

  • 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.

The executors, administrators and guardians appointed in such dissolved counties, who have not settled and closed their trusts, shall make settlements in the court of general sessions of the county that would have had jurisdiction if such new county had never been organized; and such persons may be proceeded against as if appointed in the old county.