Tennessee § 21-1-103 - Right to trial by jury.
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§ 21-1-103. Right to trial by jury.
Either party to a suit in chancery is entitled, upon application, to a jury to try and determine any material fact in dispute, save in cases involving complicated accounting, as to such accounting and those elsewhere excepted by law or by this code, and all the issues of fact in any proper cases, shall be submitted to one (1) jury. Acts 1976, ch. 436, § 1; T.C.A., § 21-1011. Textbooks. Gibson's Suits in Chancery (7th ed., Inman), §§ 8, 202, 216. Tennessee Forms (Robinson, Ramsey and Harwell), Nos. 1-39.01-1, 1-49.01-1. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 11 Tenn. Juris., Equity, §§ 56, 60-65, 71; 17 Tenn. Juris., Jury, §§ 2, 6. Law Reviews. Equity — Right to Jury Trial in Equity Cases, 22 Tenn. L. Rev. 230. Jury Trial in Chancery Court in Tennessee, 7 Vand. L. Rev. 393. Laches at Law in Tennessee, 28 U. Mem. L. Rev. 211 (1997). Tennessee Procedure — Right to Jury Trial in Chancery — Purely Equitable Suit, 7 Vand. L. Rev. 299. Cited: Pan-Am Southern Corp. v. Cummins, 156 F. Supp. 673, 1957 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2844 (D. Tenn. 1957); State ex rel. Moretz v. Johnson City, 581 S.W.2d 628, 1979 Tenn. LEXIS 435 (Tenn. 1979); Anderson County Quarterly Court v. Judges of 28th Judicial Circuit, 579 S.W.2d 875, 1978 Tenn. App. LEXIS 344 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1978); Hopson v. Southern American Ins. Co., 618 S.W.2d 745, 1980 Tenn. App. LEXIS 426 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1980); Bynum v. Hollowell, 656 S.W.2d 400, 1983 Tenn. App. LEXIS 602 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1983); Trimble v. Sonitrol of Memphis, Inc., 723 S.W.2d 633, 1986 Tenn. App. LEXIS 3230 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1986); Smyrna v. Ridley, 730 S.W.2d 318, 1987 Tenn. LEXIS 905 (Tenn. 1987); Wright v. Quillen, 909 S.W.2d 804, 1995 Tenn. App. LEXIS 195 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1995); Thompson v. Young (In re Estate of Thompson), 952 S.W.2d 429, 1997 Tenn. App. LEXIS 2 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1997); Myint v. Allstate Ins. Co., 970 S.W.2d 920, 1998 Tenn. LEXIS 293 (Tenn. 1998); McInturff v. Neeseman, 986 S.W.2d 11, 1998 Tenn. App. LEXIS 648 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1998); Keisling v. Keisling, 196 S.W.3d 703, 2005 Tenn. App. LEXIS 747 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2005).
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Section 21-1-103 ("Right to trial by jury.") is part of the Tennessee Code Annotated, the codified statutory law of Tennessee. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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