Tennessee Code 66-11-130 – Demand for enforcement of lien
Current as of: 2024 | Check for updates
|
Other versions
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 66-11-130
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Lienor: means any person having a lien or right of lien on real property by virtue of this chapter, and includes the person's successor in interest. See Tennessee Code 66-11-101
- Owner: includes the owner in fee of real property, or of a less estate in real property, a lessee for a term of years, a vendee in possession under a contract for the purchase of real property, and any person having any right, title or interest, legal or equitable, in real property, that may be sold under process. See Tennessee Code 66-11-101
- Prime contractor: means a person, including a land surveyor as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 66-11-101
- written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Upon written demand of the owner, the owner’s agent, or prime contractor, served on the lienor, requiring the lienor to file a complaint, petition, or civil warrant to enforce the lienor’s lien, and describing the real property in the demand, the proceeding must be commenced, or the claim filed in a creditors’ or foreclosure proceeding, within sixty (60) days after service, or the lien is forfeited.