The clerk shall issue, upon demand, to any one of the defendants, the defendant’s agent or attorney, to whom no copy of the bill appears by the sheriff’s return to have been delivered, a certified copy of the bill, to be charged in the bill of costs. Code 1858, § 4344 (deriv. Acts 1845-1846, ch. […]
Attachments, injunctions and all other process issued to any one (1) county shall embrace the names of all the defendants required to be served with the process residing in that county. Code 1858, § 4345 (deriv. Acts 1845-1846, ch. 122, § 3); Shan., § 6155; Code 1932, § 10426; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 21-207.
Personal service of process on the defendant in a court of chancery is dispensed with in the following cases: When the defendant is a nonresident of this state; When, upon inquiry at the defendant’s usual place of abode, the defendant cannot be found so as to be served with process, and there is just ground […]
In case personal service is not used, if the defendant does not cause an appearance to be entered, the clerk, as soon as the necessary affidavit is made, shall enter upon the rule docket an order requiring the defendant to appear at a certain day named in the order, being a rule day, and defend, […]
Where publication is made for a nonresident defendant, the clerk of the court in which the suit is filed shall mail a copy of the complaint or, after the first publication, mail a copy of the newspaper clipping containing the publication to the nonresident defendant, directed to the nonresident defendant’s last known address; and the […]
The clerk shall keep a memorandum book in which shall be noted the issuance of every subpoena for witnesses, commissions, with the day of issuance, and any other proceedings of the clerk if not entered on the clerk’s records, rule docket, or minutes; and the book shall be open for parties or their attorneys to […]
