For failing to make such index as prescribed, the register shall forfeit one hundred dollars ($100), one-half (½) to the use of the state and the other one-half (½) to any person who shall sue for the same.
Code 1858, § 455 (deriv. Acts 1839-1840, ch. 26, § 12); Shan., § 569; Code 1932, § 824; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 15-207.
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