The repeal of a statute does not affect any right which accrued, any duty imposed, any penalty incurred, nor any proceeding commenced, under or by virtue of the statute repealed.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-3-101
Repeals not retroactive
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case State Ex Rel. Vaughn v. Kaatrude (2000)
Most recently applied in Brunet v. Murphy (July 2006)
Code 1858, § 49; Shan., § 61; Code 1932, § 12; T.C.A
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.