In case personal service is not used, if the defendant does not cause an appearance to be entered, the clerk, as soon as the necessary affidavit is made, shall enter upon the rule docket an order requiring the defendant to appear at a certain day named in the order, being a rule day, and defend, or otherwise the bill will be taken for confessed.
The clerk shall forthwith cause a copy of this order to be published for four (4) consecutive weeks in the newspaper mentioned in the order or designated by the general rules of the court.
Code 1858, §§ 4354-4359 (deriv. Acts 1801, ch. 6, § 4; 1833, ch. 15; 1845-1846, ch. 122, § 7; 1851-1852, ch. 365, § 3; 1853-1854, ch. 55, § 3; 1855-1856, ch. 164, § 2); Shan., §§ 6164-6169; Code 1932, §§ 10433-10438; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 21-213 — 21-217; modified.
Rule Reference. This section is referred to in Rule 10 of the Tennessee Rules of Juvenile Procedure.
Textbooks. Gibson's Suits in Chancery (7th ed., Inman), §§ 116, 138, 139.
Tennessee Forms (Robinson, Ramsey and Harwell), No. 1-4-4.
Tennessee Jurisprudence, 3 Tenn. Juris., Appearances, § 7; Tenn. Juris., Attachment and Garnishment, §§ 80, 83, 111; 21 Tenn. Juris., Process, §§ 10, 11.
Law Reviews.
A Survey of Civil Procedure in Tennessee — 1977, II. Selecting a Proper Forum (John L. Sobieski, Jr.), 46 Tenn. L. Rev. 273.
Federal and State Condemnation Proceedings — Procedure and Statutory Background (William E. Miller), 14 Vand. L. Rev. 1085.
Recent Developments — Domestic Relations — Divorce — Due Process for Indigent Plaintiffs, 47 Tenn. L. Rev. 845.
Cited: Rast v. Terry, 532 S.W.2d 552, 1976 Tenn. LEXIS 607 (Tenn. 1976); Dungan v. Dungan, 579 S.W.2d 183, 1979 Tenn. LEXIS 424 (Tenn. 1979); In re F.M.B.P.W., — S.W.3d —, 2008 Tenn. App. LEXIS 176 (Tenn. Ct. App. Mar. 26, 2008); Perry v. Unknown Parties, — S.W.3d —, 2010 Tenn. App. LEXIS 797 (Tenn. Ct. App. Dec. 28, 2010).