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2023 Tennessee Code
Title 26 - EXECUTION (§§ 26-1-101 — 26-6-211)
Chapter 3 - LEVY OF EXECUTION (§§ 26-3-101 — 26-3-117)
Section 26-3-101 - Personalty levied on first
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TN Code § 26-3-101 (2023)
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Executions shall be levied on the goods and chattels of the defendant, in the first instance, if any there be; but if, to the best of the officer's knowledge, there be no such goods and chattels, or not sufficient to answer the plaintiff's demands, the same shall be executed upon the lands and tenements.
Code 1858, § 3026 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 23); Shan., § 4754; Code 1932, § 8888; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 26-401.
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