Terms Used In Tennessee Code 71-3-115

  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105

Any individual development accounts or other such accounts established for the benefit of recipients under this part or related programs shall be administered as approved by the state treasurer, who shall prescribe investment procedures for the corpus of such funds in a manner that the state treasurer determines in consultation with the commissioners of human services and finance and administration; provided, that the interest accruing from such accounts shall remain in those accounts and shall be distributed to the recipients, on an equitable basis, in the manner determined by the state treasurer in consultation with the commissioners.