Abolition of common law offenses of seduction and criminal conversation
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Tina Marie Hodge v. Chadwick Craig (2012)
Most recently applied in SER Justin S. Golden, Sr. v. Hon. Tod J. Kaufman, Judge (June 2014)
Acts 1990, ch. 1056, § 1.
(1) No cause of action shall be maintained that is based upon the common law torts of seduction or criminal conversation, and those torts are abolished.
(2) Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting a cause of action based upon a sexual offense, which offenses include, but are not limited to, those set out in this part.
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.