The party, in whose favor a judgment or decree is rendered against a corporation, may sue out a distringas or fieri facias, to be levied as well on the choses in action as on the goods, chattels, lands, and tenements of the corporation, and, in case of a levy on choses in action, the court may appoint a receiver to collect the same.
Code 1858, § 3000 (deriv. Acts 1845-1846, ch. 55, § 4); Shan., § 4730; Code 1932, § 8864; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 26-105.
Textbooks. Gibson's Suits in Chancery (7th ed., Inman), §§ 301, 307, 310.
Tennessee Jurisprudence, 12 Tenn. Juris., Executions, § 11; 21 Tenn. Juris., Receivers, § 7.
Law Reviews.
Enforcement of Judgments in Tennessee, 22 Tenn. L. Rev. 873.
Enforcing Money Judgments in Tennessee (Lonnie C. Rich), 4 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 65.