Every clerk, register, or other public officer whose duty it may be to keep record books, wherein the records of any court or of any county shall be kept, shall keep an index to each book wherein any suit, decree, judgment, sale, mortgage, transfer, lien, deed, power of attorney, or other record, shall be kept, in which index such clerk, register, or public officer shall enter in alphabetical order, under the name of each party, every suit, judgment, decree, sale, deed, mortgage, or other matter of record required by law to be by such clerk, register or other public officer entered in the record books to be kept by such clerk, register, or other officer, to the end that any judgment, decree, sale, conveyance, mortgage, or other record may be found under the name of either party to any transaction of record.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Title 10 - Public Libraries, Archives and Records
Part 2 - Index of Public Records
§ 10-7-201. Clerks, Registers, and Other Officers to Index Records
§ 10-7-204. Direct and Reverse Indices to Personalty — Manner of Making
§ 10-7-205. Time of Making Indices — One or More Indices — Mortgages and Deeds of Trust
§ 10-7-206. Former Indices May Be Made in Addition to Required Indices
§ 10-7-207. Failure to Make Index — Forfeiture — Qui Tam Action
§ 10-7-208. Penalty for Failure to Index Records
§ 10-7-209. Cross Index as to All Parties in Minute Books and Execution Dockets