Any judge or chancellor who fails to open court for which the judge or chancellor is responsible within the first three (3) days of each regular term, without sufficient excuse, shall have one hundred dollars ($100) of salary deducted for the failure.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 17-1-202
Penalty for failure to open court
Code 1858, § 3939 (deriv
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