§ 18-3-109. Recess Appointments
If the office of clerk of the supreme court becomes vacant during the recess of the court, the chief justice of the supreme court may make a temporary appointment to fill it until the judges of the supreme court meet and make a permanent appointment. Code 1858, § 322 (deriv. Acts 1823, ch. 14, § […]
§ 18-2-201. Official Bond
Every clerk of a court except the clerk of the supreme court and chief deputy clerks of the supreme court, before entering upon the duties of the clerk’s office, shall enter into an official bond, which shall be prepared in accordance with title 8, chapter 19, to the satisfaction of the clerk’s court, in the […]
§ 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 […]
§ 18-2-105. Unlawful Use or Disposal of Money or Property
Any clerk or clerk and master of any court who, without authority of law, uses, loans or converts to the clerk’s or clerk and master’s own use, or otherwise disposes of, any money or property that may have come into the clerk’s or clerk and master’s hands in the clerk’s or clerk and master’s official […]
§ 18-2-106. Reports of Property Sold
It is the duty of the clerk, whenever property has been sold by the clerk under order of the clerk’s court, or any judge of the court, at each term to make and submit to the court a report showing the property sold, the amount of the sale, the principal and interest collected, the aggregate […]