Tennessee § 66-3-201 - Devises declared void.
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§ 66-3-201. Devises declared void.
All devises of lands, tenements, and hereditaments, or of any rent, profit, term, or charge out of the same, contrived and made to defraud creditors of their just debts, shall be deemed and taken to be null and void only as against such creditors, their heirs, successors, executors, administrators, and assigns, and every one of them. Code 1858, § 1762 (deriv. Acts 1789, ch. 39, § 2); Shan., § 3153; Code 1932, § 7835; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-304. Cross-References. Statute of frauds, § 29-2-101 . Textbooks. Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates (4th ed., Phillips and Robinson), § 854.
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