{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-26-2-104","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 26-2-104","heading":"Additional personal property absolutely exempt","body":"(a) In addition to the exemption set out in § 26-2-105 , there shall be further exempt to every resident debtor the following specific articles of personalty: (1) All necessary and proper wearing apparel for the actual use of debtor and family and the trunks or receptacles necessary to contain same; (2) All family portraits and pictures; (3) The family Bible and school books. (b) The exemption under this section is absolute, and may be exercised by the judgment debtor before or after issuance of any execution, seizure or attachment by a judgment creditor, unless a judgment creditor, is by execution, foreclosing a security agreement on such property. Acts 1978, ch. 915, § 5; T.C.A., § 26-204, T.C.A., § 26-2-103 .\n(a) In addition to the exemption set out in § 26-2-105 , there shall be further exempt to every resident debtor the following specific articles of personalty: (1) All necessary and proper wearing apparel for the actual use of debtor and family and the trunks or receptacles necessary to contain same; (2) All family portraits and pictures; (3) The family Bible and school books.\n(1) All necessary and proper wearing apparel for the actual use of debtor and family and the trunks or receptacles necessary to contain same;\n(2) All family portraits and pictures;\n(3) The family Bible and school books.\n(b) The exemption under this section is absolute, and may be exercised by the judgment debtor before or after issuance of any execution, seizure or attachment by a judgment creditor, unless a judgment creditor, is by execution, foreclosing a security agreement on such property.","path":["TN Code","Title 26","Chapter 2"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_tn_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:51:56Z","sha256":"cfd701ef0a5d69356b1ecca26150a7fb205f65103da1921dd5a4648086030168","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-26-2-103","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-26-2-105","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"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.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-tn","title":"Tennessee Release 76 supplement","text":"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.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.tn.tca"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}