The official bonds of clerks, executed under this code, are obligatory on the principal and sureties for every wrongful act or failure of duty in the clerk's official capacity, whether embraced in the condition of the bond or not, or growing out of a law passed subsequently to its execution.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 18-2-206
Scope of liability on bonds
Code 1858, § 335 (deriv
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