Tennessee § 30-2-416 - Purchaser's remedy when satisfaction of judgment and sale is set aside at instance of heirs.
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§ 30-2-416. Purchaser's remedy when satisfaction of judgment and sale is set aside at instance of heirs.
In all cases in which the heirs, or devisees, of a deceased person, whose real estate has been sold for the satisfaction of the deceased's debts, by virtue of proceedings under §§ 30-2-409 — 30-2-415 , institute suit for the recovery of the real estate against the purchaser, in consequence of failure to serve the scire facias personally on the minor heirs, the court rendering the judgment, upon the application of the purchaser, shall set aside the satisfaction of the original judgment or execution, and thereupon the original judgment shall be revived, and may be enforced by the purchaser against the real estate in the same way as the original judgment could have been enforced by the original creditor. Code 1858, § 2266 (deriv. Acts 1849-1850, ch. 119); Shan., § 3999; Code 1932, § 8212; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-619. Textbooks. Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates (4th ed., Phillips and Robinson), § 864.
Source: official Tennessee text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 30-2-416 ("Purchaser's remedy when satisfaction of judgment and sale is set aside at instance of heirs.") 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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