Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-2-203

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.

The company has the further right to insure the lives of persons, and engage in the general business of life insurance, and, coupled with that right, the right to grant and sell annuity, or contract loans based on life annuity, with benefit of survivorship, and accept and execute all legal trusts that may be confided to it.