Executions shall be levied on the goods and chattels of the defendant, in the first instance, if any there be; but if, to the best of the officer's knowledge, there be no such goods and chattels, or not sufficient to answer the plaintiff's demands, the same shall be executed upon the lands and tenements.
Code 1858, § 3026 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 23); Shan., § 4754; Code 1932, § 8888; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 26-401.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
§ 26-3-101. Personalty Levied on First
§ 26-3-103. Corporate Property
§ 26-3-104. Indemnity Bond of Plaintiff
§ 26-3-105. Principal's Property Sold Before Surety's
§ 26-3-106. Order of Levy on Parties Secondarily Liable
§ 26-3-107. Order of Liability Stated
§ 26-3-108. Endorsement of Description of Property
§ 26-3-109. Delivery Bond of Defendant
§ 26-3-110. Liability on Forfeited Delivery Bond
§ 26-3-111. Levy on Forfeited Bond — Alias Execution
§ 26-3-112. Defendants Refusing to Join in Delivery Bond
§ 26-3-113. Order of Levy After Forfeiture of Delivery Bond
§ 26-3-114. Return of Unsatisfied Execution
§ 26-3-115. Second Delivery Bond
§ 26-3-116. Delivery Bonds on Official Default
§ 26-3-117. Costs to Be Paid by Plaintiff — Recovery From Defendant