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2016 Tennessee Code
Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings
Chapter 30 - Recovery of Personal Property
Part 2 - Detinue
§ 29-30-212. Form of warrant.

TN Code § 29-30-212 (2016) What's This?

The method of obtaining the writ shall be the same as when the suit is prosecuted in court, and the following shall in substance be the form of the writ:

State of Tennessee, To the sheriff or any constable of such county:

___________________ County

I command you to summon ___________________ to appear before me, or some other general sessions judge of such county, to answer the complaint of ___________________, for unlawfully taking out of the possession and detaining [describe the property], the property of ___________________.

This _____ day of __________, 20_____. E.F., G.S.J.

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