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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 66-33-105

  • 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.
  • Person: means a natural person, partnership, association, cooperative, corporation, trust, or other legal entity. See Tennessee Code 66-33-102
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Recording: means presenting a document to a county register in this state for official placement in the public land records. See Tennessee Code 66-33-102
  • Service agreement: means a contract pursuant to which a person agrees to provide services in connection with the sale of residential real estate or the sale of any product or the performance of any personal service on or for the maintenance of residential real estate. See Tennessee Code 66-33-102

If a service agreement or a notice or memorandum of the agreement is recorded in violation of this chapter, then a person with an interest in the real property that is the subject of the agreement may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction in the county where the recording exists to record a court order declaring the agreement unenforceable.