When a power or powers of attorney authorizing the sale or conveyance of real estate have been registered, whether with or without proper probate or acknowledgment, or any probate or acknowledgment at all, twenty (20) years or more in the register's office of the county where the real estate is situated, or, if the land lay within the Indian territory, then if registered in the register's office of any county in the state, such power or powers of attorney shall be deemed good and valid in law to pass the estate conveyed by the attorney or attorneys in fact; provided, that nothing contained in this section shall affect the rights of creditors or purchasers for valuable consideration, without notice.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration
§ 66-26-101. Effect of Instruments With or Without Registration
§ 66-26-102. Notice to All the World
§ 66-26-103. Unregistered Instruments Void as to Creditors and Bona Fide Purchasers
§ 66-26-104. Rights as Between Transferee of Decedent and Purchaser From Heir or Devisee
§ 66-26-105. Priority of Registered Instruments
§ 66-26-106. Presumption as to Validity of Registration After Twenty Years
§ 66-26-107. Presumption as to Subscription by Grantor After Thirty Years
§ 66-26-108. Presumption as to Deeds by Attorneys After Twenty Years' Registration
§ 66-26-109. Presumption as to Powers of Attorney After Twenty Years
§ 66-26-111. Proof of Instruments Registered Before 1839
§ 66-26-112. Erroneous Recital as to County Where Land Located
§ 66-26-113. Omission of Words From Certificate