Tenn. Code Ann. § 21-1-701: Powers of clerk and master

The clerk and master may, at the clerk and master's office:

(1) Receive and enter on the rules the suggestion and proof of a party's death, and order and issue the necessary process to revive;

(2) Make orders for publication against defendants in cases in which publication is allowed in lieu of personal service;

(3) Take bills for confessed, and set aside the orders pro confesso, upon good cause shown and the filing of a sufficient answer;

(4) Appoint guardians ad litem for infants, upon its being made to appear, by affidavit, that they have no general guardian;

(5) Make orders for the taking of depositions, where those orders are necessary; and

(6) Open causes for proof, on good cause shown, after they have been set for hearing, in the same way the chancellor might do.