Courts of chancery may enforce rules, orders or decrees by process against the person in default, or by process against the person in default's property.
Code 1858, § 4478 (deriv. Acts 1801, ch. 6, § 23); Shan., § 6295; Code 1932, § 10588; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 21-1209.
Cross-References. Enforcement of restraining orders and injunctions, Tenn. R. Civ. P. 65.06.
Execution of judgments by attachment for contempt, §26-1-102.
Judgment for specific acts, court powers, Tenn. R. Civ. P. 70.
Textbooks. Gibson's Suits in Chancery (7th ed., Inman), §§ 300, 306.
Tennessee Jurisprudence, 11 Tenn. Juris., Equity, § 102.
Law Reviews.
The Tennessee Court System — Chancery Court (Frederic S. Le Clercq), 8 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 281.
Cited: Kuykendall v. Wheeler, 890 S.W.2d 785, 1994 Tenn. LEXIS 353 (Tenn. 1994).