Where the statute of limitations of another state or government has created a bar to an action upon a cause accruing therein, while the party to be charged was a resident in such state or such government, the bar is equally effectual in this state.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-1-112
Application of foreign statutes
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Myers v. Hayes International Corp. (1988)
Most recently applied in Franklin Am. Mortg. Co. v. Univ. Nat'l Bank of Lawrence (December 2018)
Code 1858, § 2783; Shan., § 4480; Code 1932, § 8607; 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.