The lien shall be upon and include the conveyance and improvements thereon, and continue for twelve (12) months after the work is finished or repairs made or material furnished and until the final decision of any suit that may be brought within that time for the debt to the contractor, or undertaker, or furnisher, and bind the conveyance and improvements thereon; provided, that the conveyance with improvements thereon has not been transferred in good faith to a purchaser without notice.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-19-102
Duration of lien
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Express America, Inc. v. Pierce (In Re Express America, Inc.) (1991)
Most recently applied in Embraer Aircraft Maint. Servs., Inc. v. Aerocentury Corp. (January 2019)
Acts 1909, ch. 150, § 2; Shan., § 3546a2; Acts 1919, ch. 55; mod
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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.