Tennessee § 66-3-203 - Execution for value of alienated lands.
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§ 66-3-203. Execution for value of alienated lands.
If the devisee sells, aliens, or makes over the lands so devised, before an action is brought or process sued out against the devisee, such devisee shall be answerable for such debt to the value of the lands, sold, aliened, or made over; and execution shall be taken out upon the judgment or decree obtained against such devisee to the value of the lands, as if the same were the devisee's own proper debt. Code 1858, § 1764 (deriv. Acts 1789, ch. 39, § 3); Shan., § 3155; Code 1932, § 7837; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-306. Cross-References. Attachment and replevy, title 29, ch. 6. Execution, title 26, ch. 1. Textbooks. Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates (4th ed., Phillips and Robinson), § 854.
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