Judgments, attachments, orders, injunctions, and other writs affecting title, use or possession of real estate, issued by any court shall be effective against any person having, or later acquiring, an interest in such property who is not a party to the action wherein such judgment, attachment, order, injunction, or other writ is issued only after an appropriate copy or abstract, or a notice of lis pendens, is recorded in the register's office of the county wherein the property is situated. If an abstract is used, the contents shall be as prescribed in § 25-5-108.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-24-119
Judgments and writs affecting real estate
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case ATS, INC. v. Kent (1998)
Most recently applied in Holiday Hospitality Franchising, Inc. v. States Resources, Inc. (December 2006)
Acts 1984, ch. 603, § 2.
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.