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Chapter 1 - Bills in Chancery
Part 1 - General Provisions
§ 21-1-101. Application to All Equitable Proceedings - This title applies to all equitable proceedings in any other...
§ 21-1-102. Oaths to Bills - Bills required to be under oath may be sworn to...
§ 21-1-103. Right to Trial by Jury - Either party to a suit in chancery is entitled, upon...
§ 21-1-104. Appointment of Referees and Commissioners - The chancellors, in vacation as well as in term, have...
§ 21-1-105. Appointments to Serve Process - The chancellors may also, in like manner, appoint persons to...
§ 21-1-106. Regulation of Master's Proceedings - The chancellor may also, in vacation as well as in...
§ 21-1-107. Incompetency of Chancellor on Vacation Matters - In all cases in which the chancellor of the division...
Part 2 - Process
§ 21-1-201. Copy of Bill on Demand - The clerk shall issue, upon demand, to any one of...
§ 21-1-202. Names Included in Process - Attachments, injunctions and all other process issued to any one...
§ 21-1-203. Personal Service Dispensed With - Code, 1858, §§ 4352, 4353 (deriv. Acts 1787, ch. 22,...
§ 21-1-204. Service by Publication - In case personal service is not used, if the defendant...
§ 21-1-206. Memorandum Book for Process - The clerk shall keep a memorandum book in which shall...
Part 3 - Contempt on Failure to Appear
§ 21-1-301. Procedure on Defendant's Failure to Appear - If the defendant upon whom process has been served fails...
§ 21-1-302. Attachments - Code 1858, §§ 4361-4363, 4365 (deriv. Acts 1801, ch. 6,...
§ 21-1-303. Refusal to Answer Fully - A defendant who appears and refuses to answer fully shall...
§ 21-1-304. Procedure After Commitment - If the defendant is committed for contempt, the complainant may...
§ 21-1-305. Extension of Time to Answer - Nothing in this part shall deprive the clerk and master,...
Part 4 - Decrees Pro Confesso
§ 21-1-401. Original Attachment — Effect of Decree - Cases in chancery brought by attachment of property under title...
§ 21-1-402. Time Decree Becomes Absolute Without Attachment - In all other cases, a decree against a defendant without...
§ 21-1-403. Death of Defendant After Decree - The death of the defendant proceeded against without personal service,...
§ 21-1-404. Time Defense Allowed - The original defendant, or the defendant's heir, representative or assignee...
§ 21-1-405. Security From Complainant on Decree - It is no objection to the execution of a decree...
§ 21-1-406. Effect of Execution Before Setting Aside - The decree, if executed before it is set aside under...
Part 5 - Transfer of Cases
§ 21-1-501. Incompetency of Judge - In all cases in equity, if the judge is a...
§ 21-1-502. Suits Related to Actions in Other Courts - The chancery court in which any suit or proceeding is...
Part 6 - Answers
§ 21-1-601. Oath to Answer - When an answer is required to be sworn to, the...
§ 21-1-602. Evidential Value of Answer in Discovery and Where Oath Not Waived - A sworn answer in chancery, when required by a bill...
Part 7 - Rules and Orders of Clerk and Master
§ 21-1-701. Powers of Clerk and Master - The clerk and master may, at the clerk and master's...
§ 21-1-702. Entry of Proceedings by Clerk and Master - Rules, notices, orders and other proceedings in a cause, made...
§ 21-1-703. Time of Proceedings - The rules, notices and proceedings described in § 21-7-702 shall...
§ 21-1-704. Insertion in Rule Docket - All rules or orders taken at any one (1) court...
§ 21-1-705. Rule Days - Each day of a regular, special or adjourned term of...
§ 21-1-706. Notice of Proceedings by Clerk - The clerk and master shall give to the opposite party,...
§ 21-1-707. Notice of Alteration of Rules and Orders - The clerk and master shall not set aside, modify or...
Part 8 - Decrees and Execution
§ 21-1-801. Sequestration - If the court see proper in the first instance, or...
§ 21-1-802. Mesne and Final Process — Common Law Writs - Courts of chancery are further authorized to issue such process,...
§ 21-1-803. Foreclosure Sale - Where, upon the foreclosure of a mortgage or deed of...
§ 21-1-804. Enforcement of Orders and Decrees - Courts of chancery may enforce rules, orders or decrees by...
§ 21-1-805. Issuance of Attachment - An attachment issues by order of the court upon the...
§ 21-1-806. Attachment Without Service of Decree - If the defendant in execution keeps out of the way...
§ 21-1-807. Commitment for Nonperformance of Decree - In attachments for the nonperformance of decrees, no bail is...
§ 21-1-808. Habeas Corpus on Purge of Contempt - The court, or a judge of the court in vacation,...
§ 21-1-809. Hearing on Habeas Corpus - The adverse party, the adverse party's agent or attorney is...
§ 21-1-810. Reinstatement of Remanded Cases - In all cases remanded by the supreme court or court...
§ 21-1-811. Notice of Appellate Decree - Upon the receipt of any certified copy of decree, or...