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. Acts 1849-1850, ch. 150, § 1); Shan., § 411; Code 1932, § 661; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 18-214.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Chapter 2 - Accounting and Bonds
§ 18-2-202. Commissioner and Receiver Bond
§ 18-2-203. Failure to Give Commissioner and Receiver Bond
§ 18-2-205. Entry and Filing of Bonds
§ 18-2-206. Scope of Liability on Bonds
§ 18-2-207. Chancellors to Examine Bonds
§ 18-2-208. Examination of Witnesses and Records
§ 18-2-209. Orders to Correct Deficiencies in Bond
§ 18-2-210. Other Courts and County Legislative Bodies Also to Examine Bonds