Executions shall be levied on the goods and chattels of the defendant, in the first instance, if any there be; but if, to the best of the officer's knowledge, there be no such goods and chattels, or not sufficient to answer the plaintiff's demands, the same shall be executed upon the lands and tenements.
Code 1858, § 3026 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 23); Shan., § 4754; Code 1932, § 8888; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 26-401.
Cross-References. Costs to plaintiff for transportation and storage of property levied upon, §26-3-117.
Proceedings on distress warrant for collection of taxes, §67-1-1202.
Real defendant in action against levying officer, §§20-1-117,20-1-118.
Registration of abstract, §§25-5-103,25-5-107 —25-5-109.
Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 12 Tenn. Juris., Executions, §§ 11, 20.
Law Reviews.
Enforcement of Judgments in Tennessee, 22 Tenn. L. Rev. 873.
Forms of Relief, 4 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 400.
Judicial Reform at the Lowest Level: A Model Statute for Small Claims Courts, Part III, 28 Vand. L. Rev. 747.
The Collection of Debts from Insolvent and Fully-Mortgaged Debtors (John A. Walker, Jr.), 43 Tenn. L. Rev. 399.