The official bonds of clerks, executed under this code, are obligatory on the principal and sureties for every wrongful act or failure of duty in the clerk's official capacity, whether embraced in the condition of the bond or not, or growing out of a law passed subsequently to its execution.
Code 1858, § 335 (deriv. Acts 1849-1850, ch. 150, § 1); Shan., § 411; Code 1932, § 661; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 18-214.
Cross-References. Bonds of public officers, law applicable, §§8-19-302 —8-19-304,8-19-306.
Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 6 Tenn. Juris., Clerks of Court, § 14.