2010 Tennessee Code
Title 66 - Property
Chapter 11 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens
Part 1 - General Provisions
66-11-130 - Demand for enforcement of lien.

66-11-130. Demand for enforcement of lien.

Upon written demand of the owner, the owner's agent, or prime contractor, served on the lienor, requiring the lienor to commence action to enforce the lienor's lien, and describing the real property in the demand, the action shall be commenced, or the claim filed in a creditors' or foreclosure proceeding, within sixty (60) days after service, or the lien shall be forfeited.

[Code 1932, § 7947; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-1130; Acts 2007, ch. 189, § 29.]  

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