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Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-105

Property tort actions — Statutory liabilities

Applied in 82 court decisions — leading case Pero's Steak and Spaghetti House v. Lee (2002)

Most recently applied in Palazzo v. Harvey (May 2019)

Code 1858, § 2773 (deriv

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The following actions shall be commenced within three (3) years from the accruing of the cause of action:

(1) Actions for injuries to personal or real property;

(2) Actions for the detention or conversion of personal property; and

(3) Civil actions based upon the alleged violation of any federal or state statute creating monetary liability for personal services rendered, or liquidated damages or other recovery therefor, when no other time of limitation is fixed by the statute creating such liability.

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.