(1) This part may be cited as the “Uniform Arbitration Act.”
(2) As used in this part, “court” means any court of competent jurisdiction of the state.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-5-301
Short title — “Court” defined
Known as the Uniform Arbitration Act
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case Frizzell Construction Co. v. Gatlinburg, L.L.C. (1999)
Most recently applied in Rafia N. Khan, Individually, And In Her Capacity As Trustee Of The Rafia N. Khan Irrevocable Trust v. Regions Bank (November 2014)
Acts 1983, ch. 462, §§ 17, 23.
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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.