Whenever any officer, required by law to give an official bond, acts under a bond which is not in the penalty, payable, or conditioned as prescribed by law, or is otherwise defective, such bond is not void, but stands in the place of the official bond, subject, on its condition being broken, to all the remedies which the person aggrieved might have maintained on the official bond of such officer, executed, approved, and filed according to law.
Code 1858, § 773 (deriv. Acts 1843-1844, ch. 103, § 14); Shan., § 1094; Code 1932, § 1836; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-1921.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees
Chapter 19 - Bonds of Officers
§ 8-19-301. Obligations Covered by Bonds
§ 8-19-302. Obligation on Defective Bond
§ 8-19-303. Estoppel to Deny Validity of Bond
§ 8-19-304. Bonds Not Discharged by Single Recovery
§ 8-19-305. Amount of Liability of Sureties