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2020 Tennessee Code
Title 47 - Commercial Instruments and Transactions
Chapter 12 - Discharge of Sureties
§ 47-12-101. Notice Requiring Creditor to Sue — Creditor's Inaction
Universal Citation: TN Code § 47-12-101 (2020)
- When any surety by bill, bond, covenant, or nonnegotiable note for the payment of money or note for specific articles, other than the surety of a guardian, executor, administrator, or public officer, or guarantor of negotiable paper, apprehends that the principal is likely to become insolvent, or to migrate from the state, without previously discharging the debt or obligation, the surety may, if the debt or security be due, by notice in writing, require the creditor forthwith to put it to suit.
- Unless, within thirty (30) days thereafter, the creditor commences an action, and proceeds with due diligence in the ordinary course of law to recover judgment for the debt or obligation, and by execution to make the amount due thereon, the creditor shall forfeit the right which the creditor would otherwise have to recover it from the surety.
Code 1858, § 1968 (deriv. Acts 1801, ch. 18, §§ 1, 5); Shan., § 3517; mod. Code 1932, § 7526; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 47-701.
Textbooks. Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates (4th ed., Phillips and Robinson), § 717.
Tennessee Jurisprudence, 23 Tenn. Juris., Suretyship, §§ 20, 21.
Comparative Legislation. Discharge of sureties:
Ala. Code §8-3-1 et seq.
Ark. Code §16-107-301.
Ga. O.C.G.A. §11-3-601 et seq.
Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 413.220 et seq.
Miss. Code Ann. §87-5-1 et seq.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 433.010 et seq.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 26-1 et seq.
Va. Code § 49-25 et seq.
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