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Chapter 1 - Witnesses and Privileged Communications
Part 2 - Privileged Communications
§ 24-1-202. Transactions With Mentally Incompetent Party - It is not lawful for any party to any action,...
§ 24-1-203. Transactions With Decedent or Ward — Dead Man's Statute - In actions or proceedings by or against executors, administrators, or...
§ 24-1-209. Communication Between Attorney and Private Detective Privileged - Communication between an attorney and a private detective or investigator...
Chapter 2 - Attendance of Witnesses
§ 24-2-101. Duty to Attend - Every witness legally bound to appear as herein directed shall...
§ 24-2-102. Penalty for Failure to Appear - In default thereof, a witness forfeits to the party at...
§ 24-2-103. Scire Facias by Circuit Court - If a witness fails to appear when summoned before a...
§ 24-2-104. Scire Facias by General Sessions Judge - The party at whose instance a witness is summoned before...
§ 24-2-105. Privilege Against Process - During the attendance of any person summoned as a witness,...
§ 24-2-106. Proceedings Against Witness on Scire Facias - Upon return of the scire facias issued for the penalty,...
§ 24-2-107. Subpoenas — Conflicts With Rules of Civil Procedure - Rule 45 of the Rules of Civil Procedure shall govern...
§ 24-2-108. Language Required in Subpoena - Each subpoena issued should at a minimum contain explicit language...
Chapter 4 - Compensation of Witnesses
§ 24-4-103. Witness Before General Sessions Judge - Every witness summoned before a judge of the court of...
§ 24-4-104. Maximum Number of Appearances Compensated - No witness shall prove personal attendance in more than four...
§ 24-4-105. Settlement of Case - If the suit in which the witness is summoned is...
§ 24-4-106. Probate of Attendance — Immediate Payment — Travel Advances in Criminal Cases - Code 1858, § 3833 (deriv. Acts 1845-1846, ch. 164, §...
§ 24-4-107. Recovery From Successful Party - Whenever a party in a court of record recovers a...
Chapter 5 - Presumptions
§ 24-5-101. Conveyances of Public Officers and Fiduciaries - All instruments of conveyance executed in official capacity by any...
§ 24-5-102. Settlements of Personal Representatives and Guardians - The settlements of personal representatives and guardians, made in the...
§ 24-5-103. Notary's Certificate as to Notice of Dishonor - The certificate of a notary public in or on the...
§ 24-5-104. [reserved.] - The execution or assignment of instruments offered in evidence by...
§ 24-5-106. Denial of Instrument by Successor of Decedent - If the party be deceased, the personal representative, or in...
§ 24-5-107. Sworn Accounts - Code 1858, § 3780 (deriv. Acts 1819, ch. 25, §...
§ 24-5-108. Partnership of Plaintiffs - Whenever two (2) or more persons bring a suit at...
§ 24-5-109. Partnership of Defendants - Where two (2) or more persons are sued as partners,...
§ 24-5-111. Negligence of Bailee - In all actions by a bailor against a bailee for...
§ 24-5-112. Continuance of Reproductive Capacity — Rebuttable Presumption - The present absolute common law presumption which prevails in Tennessee...
Chapter 6 - Proof of Public Acts and Records
Part 1 - General Provisions
§ 24-6-107. Certificate of Search - The certificate of a public officer that such officer has...
Part 2 - Judicial Notice
§ 24-6-201. Judicial Notice of Foreign Law in Appellate Court - It is not necessary, in a case carried from an...
Chapter 7 - Admissibility of Evidence
§ 24-7-107. Settlements of Debts - All settlements in writing, made in good faith, for the...
§ 24-7-114. Testimony Before Committee of General Assembly Inadmissible - Without the consent of such witness there shall not be...
§ 24-7-115. Opinions as to Medical Findings - In the trial of any civil suit, there shall be...
§ 24-7-116. Telephone Company Records - The custodian must personally attend in order to comply with...
§ 24-7-125. Admissibility of Evidence of Other Crimes, Wrongs, or Acts — Conditions for Admission - In a criminal case, evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or...
Chapter 8 - Lost Evidence
§ 24-8-101. Affidavit of Loss - Any lost instrument may be supplied by affidavit of any...
§ 24-8-102. Instrument in Possession of Adverse Party - If an instrument is wrongfully in the possession of the...
§ 24-8-103. Effect of Affidavit - If the instrument is one which the law requires should...
§ 24-8-104. Requirement of Indemnity Bond - The court, before whom the action is tried, may, in...
§ 24-8-105. Sureties on Indemnity Bond - In cases of lost notes, bonds, life insurance policies, and...
§ 24-8-106. Action Without Bond - The person recovering on such lost instrument may, however, after...
§ 24-8-107. Intervention by True Owner - If the actual holder of such lost instrument brings an...
§ 24-8-108. [reserved.] - Any record, proceeding, or paper filed in an action, either...
§ 24-8-110. Retaking Lost Depositions - If the lost papers consist of depositions, the court may,...
Chapter 9 - Depositions
§ 24-9-103. [reserved.] - Any court of record, or any clerk thereof, may issue...
§ 24-9-137. Person Forbidden to Take Deposition Pursuant to § 24-9-136 Not to Record or Transcribe Any Hearing Concerning Action - Any person forbidden to take a deposition in an action...
Part 2 - Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act
§ 24-9-201. Short Title - This part shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 24-9-202. Part Definitions - As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
§ 24-9-204. Service of Subpoena - A subpoena issued by a clerk of court under §...
§ 24-9-205. Deposition, Production, and Inspection - When a subpoena issued under § 24-9-203 commands a person...
§ 24-9-206. Application to Court - An application to the court for a protective order or...
§ 24-9-207. Award of Attorney's Fees and Expenses - If the court grants a motion to modify or quash...
Part 3 - Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act
§ 24-9-301. Short Title - This part may be cited as the “Uniform Unsworn Foreign...
§ 24-9-302. Part Definitions - In this part:
§ 24-9-303. Applicability of Part - This part applies to an unsworn declaration by a declarant...
§ 24-9-305. Required Medium - If a law of this state requires that a sworn...
§ 24-9-306. Form of Unsworn Declaration - An unsworn declaration under this part must be in substantially...
§ 24-9-307. Uniformity of Application and Construction - In applying and construing this part, consideration must be given...
§ 24-9-308. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act - This part modifies, limits, and supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures...