2010 Tennessee Code
Title 66 - Property
Chapter 23 - Authentication of Instruments by Witnesses
66-23-116 - Examination of witnesses.

66-23-116. Examination of witnesses.

When the witness or witnesses appear before the clerk, the clerk shall propound to them such questions as the clerk may find requisite to establish the facts necessary to authenticate the instrument, whether it be the identity of the maker, the maker's handwriting, or the handwriting of a nonresident or deceased witness.

[Code 1858, § 2057 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 90, § 2); Shan., § 3734; Code 1932, § 7649; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2316.]  

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