Tennessee § 44-8-202 - Fences to be erected and maintained at joint expense.
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§ 44-8-202. Fences to be erected and maintained at joint expense.
Partition fences may be erected and repaired at the expense, jointly, of the occupants or owners; or if a person makes a fence a partition fence, by joining to it or using it as such, that person shall pay to the person erecting it that person's proportion of the expense. Code 1858, § 1687; Acts 1875, ch. 64, § 1; Shan., § 2999; Code 1932, § 5214; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 44-1713, 44-9-202. Compiler's Notes. Former part 2, §§ 44-8-201 — 44-8-203 , concerning grazing, was transferred to part 5 of this chapter in 1987. Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 13 Tenn. Juris., Fences, § 2.
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