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Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-49-102: Order to show cause for nondelivery
Where this section sits in the code
- TN Code
- Title 8
- Chapter 49
(a) If any person having the possession thereof refuses or neglects, after a demand is made by a qualified officer, to deliver over any books, papers, or property, as required in § 8-49-101 , such officer may make complaint to the circuit judge, or judge of the court of general sessions of the county in which the person refusing resides.
(b) If such judge is satisfied by the oath of the complainant, and such other evidence as may be offered, that any such books, papers, or property are withheld, the judge shall grant an order upon the person so refusing to show cause, on a day and at a place to be therein named, why the person should not be compelled to deliver the same.
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