Terms Used In Tennessee Code 66-19-211

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.

The owners and/or proprietors of wharves and landings, where wharfage is allowed by law, have a lien on boats, rafts, and other water crafts, and their loading, for the payment of their wharfage fees, and the same may be enforced by attachment within three (3) months after the lien accrued.