2010 Tennessee Code
Title 30 - Administration of Estates
Chapter 2 - Management, Settlement and Distribution
Part 7 - Distribution
30-2-707 - Receipt for legacy or share.
30-2-707. Receipt for legacy or share.
Every person interested in the distribution of an estate shall execute to the executor, administrator, clerk, or person whose duty it is to distribute the estate, a receipt for that person's legacy, distributive share, or interest in the estate, upon payment of the same. It shall not be necessary for the receipt to be sworn or otherwise acknowledged before the clerk or a notary public.
[Code 1858, §§ 2320, 2321, 2323 (deriv. Acts 1853-1854, ch. 49, §§ 1, 2; 1855-1856, ch. 87); Shan., §§ 4057, 4058, 4060; Code 1932, §§ 8340, 8341, 8343; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 30-1308, 30-1309, 30-1311; Acts 1986, ch. 580, § 3.]
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