Duties

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The clerk and master of the chancery court, in addition to the duties prescribed by chapters 1 and 2 of this title, is required to:

  1. Keep a rule docket, in which shall be entered the names of the complainants and defendants in full, the names of the attorneys and counsel, a minute of the date of the issuance and return of process, with the return on the process, and a note of all the orders and proceedings made at office;
  2. Keep a well-bound book, in which shall be entered, under the name of each case, the depositions taken and filed in the case, the names of the witnesses, and the date of the filing, and by whom. This book may be dispensed with by keeping the rule docket in such a way as to enable the entries required in this section to be made in the docket, without interfering with the entries regularly belonging to that docket;
  3. Issue all original, mesne and final process from the court, make orders of publication for defendants, grant decrees pro confesso for want of answer, hear exceptions to bills, answers and reports, subject at all times to the control, direction and supervision of the chancellor; and
  4. Perform such other duties as are, or may be, by law required.

Code 1858, § 4085 (deriv. Acts 1801, ch. 6, §§ 44, 46; 1835-1836, ch. 20, § 3); Shan., § 5899; Code 1932, § 10099; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 18-502.

Cross-References. Accounting for fees, title 8, chapter 22.

Annual audit, §4-3-304.

Fees, title 8, ch. 21, part 4.

Fees for accounting made in decedents' estates, §30-2-611.

Notice of accounting in decedents' estates given by, §30-2-603.

Payment for office supplies, §8-26-104.

Textbooks. Gibson's Suits in Chancery (7th ed., Inman), §§ 631, 632, 642.

Tennessee Jurisprudence, 6 Tenn. Juris., Clerks of Court, § 12.

Law Reviews.

The Tennessee Court System — Chancery Court (Frederic S. Le Clercq), 8 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 281.

Attorney General Opinions. Compensation for clerk and master serving as substitute judge not authorized, OAG 99-087 (4/8/99).

Cited: Kelton v. Snell, 689 S.W.2d 186, 1985 Tenn. App. LEXIS 2668 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1985).


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