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2024 Tennessee Code
Title 29 - REMEDIES AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS (§§ 29-1-101 — 29-43-101)
Chapter 30 - RECOVERY OF PERSONAL PROPERTY (§§ 29-30-101 — 29-30-217)
Part 2 - DETINUE (§§ 29-30-201 — 29-30-217)
Section 29-30-212 - Form of warrant

Universal Citation:
TN Code § 29-30-212 (2024)
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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

______________ County such 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.

Code 1858, § 3395 (deriv. Acts 1851-1852, ch. 32, § 8); Shan., § 5150; Code 1932, § 9305; Acts 1973, ch. 365, § 12(d); impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-2323.

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