2020 Tennessee Code
Title 40 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 11 - Bail
Part 2 - Forfeiture of Bail
§ 40-11-209. Certificate of District Attorney General
The district attorney general for the district in which the sale is to be made shall thereupon issue and deliver a certificate to the sheriff of the county conducting the sale, where the land or lands are situated. The certificate shall be in the following words and figures:
State of Tennessee, County of
day of (year)
I, , district attorney general for the judicial district do hereby certify that I have purchased on the day of (year) on behalf of and in the name of the State of Tennessee at a sale under execution at the courthouse, in County, Tennessee from the sheriff of County, said execution having been issued to collect the sum of dollars, the amount of the forfeiture taken upon the appearance bond of indicted day of (year) by the grand jury of County, upon a charge of the following described real estate for the sum of $ .
DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE
The above described real estate having been levied upon as the property of , surety upon the appearance bond of the aforementioned defendant, viz.,
This land having been purchased and bid in by me on behalf of and in the name of the State of Tennessee, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by Tennessee Code Annotated §§40-11-206 —40-11-208, and acts amendatory thereto.
This certificate is issued by me and delivered to the sheriff of County aforesaid in lieu of the sum of $ bid by me.
District Attorney General for the Judicial District
