GroundRules
← Search the law
Tennessee · Snapshot open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17

Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-6-121: Form of writ

Read at publisher ↗
Where this section sits in the code
  1. TN Code
  2. Title 29
  3. Chapter 6

(a) The writ may be substantially in the following form: State of Tennessee, ______________ County. To the sheriff of ______________ County, greeting: Whereas, A B (or C D, as the agent or attorney of A B) hath complained on oath to me, E F, judge (chancellor or clerk), that G H is justly indebted (or liable) to A B in the sum of ____________________ dollars, and affidavit having also been made in writing, and bond given as required by law in attachment cases, you are hereby commanded to attach so much of the estate of G H as will be of value sufficient to satisfy the debt and costs according to the complaint, and such estate, unless replevied, so to secure that the same may be liable to further proceedings thereon to be had at the ______________ court, to be held for the county of ______________, on the ____________________ day of ______________ next (or before a general sessions judge of ______________ county, on the ______________ day of ____________________), when and where you will make known how you have executed this writ. Witness, E F, judge of the ______________ court (chancellor or clerk), this ____________________ day of ______________, 20 ____________________. E F. (b) No objection will lie to the form of the attachment, if the essential matters in this section be set forth in such attachment. Code 1858, §§ 3474, 3475 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 24); Shan., §§ 5234, 5235; Code 1932, §§ 9424, 9425; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-621.

(a) The writ may be substantially in the following form: State of Tennessee, ______________ County. To the sheriff of ______________ County, greeting: Whereas, A B (or C D, as the agent or attorney of A B) hath complained on oath to me, E F, judge (chancellor or clerk), that G H is justly indebted (or liable) to A B in the sum of ____________________ dollars, and affidavit having also been made in writing, and bond given as required by law in attachment cases, you are hereby commanded to attach so much of the estate of G H as will be of value sufficient to satisfy the debt and costs according to the complaint, and such estate, unless replevied, so to secure that the same may be liable to further proceedings thereon to be had at the ______________ court, to be held for the county of ______________, on the ____________________ day of ______________ next (or before a general sessions judge of ______________ county, on the ______________ day of ____________________), when and where you will make known how you have executed this writ. Witness, E F, judge of the ______________ court (chancellor or clerk), this ____________________ day of ______________, 20 ____________________. E F.

State of Tennessee,

______________ County.

To the sheriff of ______________ County, greeting:

Whereas, A B (or C D, as the agent or attorney of A B) hath complained on oath to me, E F, judge (chancellor or clerk), that G H is justly indebted (or liable) to A B in the sum of ____________________ dollars, and affidavit having also been made in writing, and bond given as required by law in attachment cases, you are hereby commanded to attach so much of the estate of G H as will be of value sufficient to satisfy the debt and costs according to the complaint, and such estate, unless replevied, so to secure that the same may be liable to further proceedings thereon to be had at the ______________ court, to be held for the county of ______________, on the ____________________ day of ______________ next (or before a general sessions judge of ______________ county, on the ______________ day of ____________________), when and where you will make known how you have executed this writ. Witness, E F, judge of the ______________ court (chancellor or clerk), this ____________________ day of ______________, 20 ____________________. E F.

____________, on the ____________________ day of ______________ next (or before a general sessions judge of ______________ county, on the ______________ day of ____________________), when and where you will make known how you have executed this writ. Witness, E F, judge of the ______________ court (chancellor or clerk), this ____________________ day of ______________, 20 ____________________. E F.

(b) No objection will lie to the form of the attachment, if the essential matters in this section be set forth in such attachment.

Collected 2026-09-17T21:51:56Z. Source file · JSON

Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text. Source · License

Tennessee electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 76 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows. Source

Browse this collection