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Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-114

Actions for faulty surveying

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 14 Mass. App. Ct. 242 - Raffel v. Perley (1982)

Most recently applied in Island Properties Associates v. The Reaves Firm, Inc., d/b/a Reaves, Sweeney, and Marcum (March 2013)

Acts 1980, ch. 811, § 2; T.C.A., § 28-319.

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(1) All actions to recover damages against any person engaged in the practice of surveying for any deficiency, defect, omission, error or miscalculation shall be brought within four (4) years from the date the survey is recorded on the plat. Any such action not instituted within this four (4) year period shall be forever barred. The cause of action in such cases shall accrue when the services are performed.

(2) “Practice of land surveying” as used in this section includes, but is limited to, those activities set forth in § 62-18-102(3), and the establishment or reestablishment of corners, boundaries, and locations of lots, parcels, tracts, or divisions of land, including distances, directions, and acreage, or fractional parts thereof; and also including, but not limited to, the correct determination and description of the same for the purpose of furnishing a legal description of any land surveyed to be used in deeds or other instruments of conveyances for the purpose of conveying title to the area surveyed.

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.