If a judgment or decree be that the party recover or be put in possession of the specific property, real or personal, the court may carry the same into effect by writ of possession or other process sufficient for the purpose. Code 1858, § 2997; Shan., § 4727; Code 1932, § 8861; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), […]
In all cases where judicial process or execution, according to the principles of the common law, cannot be made to apply to the purpose of carrying into effect any judgment or decree of a court of record, the court may enforce the judgment or decree by attachment for contempt, in the nature of an execution. […]
All judgments and decrees of any of the judicial tribunals of this state for money may be enforced by execution. Code 1858, § 2998 (deriv. Acts 1787, ch. 22, § 2); Shan., § 4728; Code 1932, § 8862; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 26-103.
Executions issue against the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, of the defendant. Code 1858, § 2999 (deriv. Acts 1787, ch. 22, § 2; 1794, ch. 1, § 23); Shan., § 4729; Code 1932, § 8863; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 26-104.
The party, in whose favor a judgment or decree is rendered against a corporation, may sue out a distringas or fieri facias, to be levied as well on the choses in action as on the goods, chattels, lands, and tenements of the corporation, and, in case of a levy on choses in action, the court […]
Whenever a judgment by motion or action at law is had against a sheriff, coroner, or constable, and the official sureties of such officer, for a failure of duty in and about an execution, and the amount of such judgment has been paid by the sureties, the sureties are entitled, at their cost and risk, […]
In all cases in which property, real or personal, is recovered from the purchaser at execution or master’s sale, by the defendant, heirs or representatives of the defendant, or by third persons, the court rendering the judgment or making the sale, may, in its discretion, upon application of such purchaser, and scire facias sued out, […]
No alias or pluries execution shall issue until the previous execution is returned, or satisfactorily accounted for by affidavit. Code 1858, § 3020 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 17); Shan., § 4748; Code 1932, § 8882; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 26-109.
Court executions are tested the day of issuance. Code 1858, § 3001; Shan., § 4731; Code 1932, § 8865; Acts 1975, ch. 95, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, §§ 2, 3; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 26-110; Acts 1985, ch. 131, § 1.
A garnishee who: Receives an execution without the defendant’s social security number, if an individual, or federal taxpayer identification, if a corporation, partnership, trust or other entity; and After reasonable effort is otherwise unable to identify the defendant or to distinguish the defendant from other individuals or entities based on the information provided on the […]
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if a member of a reserve or Tennessee national guard unit entered into a mortgage or deed of trust for the purchase of a home, or a contract for the purchase of a motor vehicle, and the person is subsequently called into active military service of the […]
