§ 18-2-202. Commissioner and Receiver Bond
The several courts may also require their clerks to give bond, in accordance with § 18-2-205, in such sum as the court deems sufficient to cover property or funds that may at any time come to the hands of the clerks as special commissioners or receivers, by appointment of the court or any judge of […]
§ 18-2-203. Failure to Give Commissioner and Receiver Bond
The failure of the clerk to execute the special bond provided for in § 18-2-202 shall not subject the clerk to any penalty, but the court may confide the particular business to such other person as will give the required security, and, in the absence of the special bond, the clerk and the clerk’s sureties […]
§ 18-2-204. Special Bonds
The court may also require special bonds to meet particular exigencies, and in a suitable penalty, whenever, in its judgment, the interest of suitors render it necessary, subject to § 18-2-203. Code 1858, § 330; Shan., § 406; Code 1932, § 656; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 18-212.
§ 18-2-205. Entry and Filing of Bonds
The bonds required in §§ 18-2-201 — 18-2-204, after being acknowledged before, approved and certified by the court, shall be entered upon the minutes within thirty (30) days, and shall then be recorded in the office of the county register of deeds and transmitted to the office of the county clerk for safekeeping. Code 1858, […]
§ 18-2-206. Scope of Liability on Bonds
The official bonds of clerks, executed under this code, are obligatory on the principal and sureties for every wrongful act or failure of duty in the clerk’s official capacity, whether embraced in the condition of the bond or not, or growing out of a law passed subsequently to its execution. Code 1858, § 335 (deriv. […]
§ 18-2-207. Chancellors to Examine Bonds
It is the duty of the chancellors, on the first day of each term of their respective courts, to examine the bonds of the respective clerks and masters of those courts, and to ascertain whether they are in conformity to law and whether the sureties on the bonds are good and solvent and worth the […]
§ 18-2-102. Payment of Money to Parties — Penalty for Violations
It is the duty of each of the clerks of the several courts, upon application of the party entitled, the party’s agent or attorney, made at the office of the clerk, to pay and deliver to the applicant, without delay, any money or property in the clerk’s hands, received by virtue of any decree, judgment […]
§ 18-2-103. Report of Money or Assets Held
It is the duty of the clerks or clerks and masters of the respective courts to prepare a written financial report describing and identifying the amounts of money or other assets in their respective offices at the end of each fiscal year. The report shall include a listing of all cases for which funds are […]
§ 18-2-104. False Report of Moneys Held
Any clerk or clerk and master who willfully and corruptly makes a false report to the court of the matters required by § 18-2-103 commits a Class A misdemeanor, and the clerk shall be removed from office under § 18-2-213.
§ 18-2-101. Cash Book — Penalty for Violations
The clerks of the courts, and clerks and masters, shall keep a cash book as one (1) of the public records of their respective offices, in which they shall enter, under each case, all sums of money received or disbursed by them, showing the date of receipt or disbursement, on what account received or disbursed […]