Tennessee § 29-27-103 - Infancy of owners — Distinctness of interests.
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§ 29-27-103. Infancy of owners — Distinctness of interests.
Nor will the fact that some of the joint owners are infants, and that it is to their interest that the property should not be partitioned; nor that the several estates and interests of the parties are altogether different and distinct. Code 1858, § 3264 (deriv. Acts 1853-1854, ch. 48, § 2); Shan., § 5012; Code 1932, § 9167; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-2103. Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 20 Tenn. Juris., Partition, §§ 12, 19.
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