§ 10-7-201 — Clerks, registers, and other officers to index records - Indexing in name of trust

(a) Every clerk, register, or other public officer whose duty it may be to keep record books, wherein the records of any court or of any county shall be kept, shall keep an index to each book wherein any suit, decree, judgment, sale, mortgage, transfer, lien, deed, power of attorney, or other record, shall be kept, in which index such clerk, register, or public officer shall enter in alphabetical order, under the name of each party, every suit, judgment, decree, sale, deed, mortgage, or other matter of record required by law to be by such clerk, register or other public officer entered in the record books to be kept by such clerk, register, or other officer, to the end that any judgment, decree, sale, conveyance, mortgage, or other record may be found under the name of either party to any transaction of record. (b) A suit, decree, judgment, sale, mortgage, transfer, lien, deed, power of attorney, or other record referencing a trust must be indexed in the name of the trust, if the name is stated in the document, and in the name of each trustee listed in the document.

Legislative History

Amended by 2021 Tenn. Acts, ch. 449, s 2, eff. 7/1/2021. Acts 1871, ch. 85, § 1; Shan., § 5853; Code 1932, § 10055; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 15-201.