Any person may also sue out an attachment in the chancery court, upon debts or demands of a purely legal nature, except causes of action founded on torts, without first having recovered a judgment at law, whenever the amount in controversy is sufficient to give the court jurisdiction.
Code 1858, § 3461 (deriv. Acts 1835-1836, ch. 43, § 1; 1837-1838, ch. 166, § 1); Shan., § 5218; Code 1932, § 9405; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-611.
Textbooks. Gibson's Suits in Chancery (7th ed., Inman), § 119.
Tennessee Jurisprudence, 3 Tenn. Juris., Attachment and Garnishment, §§ 4, 25, 86, 112.
Law Reviews.
Enforcement of Judgments in Tennessee, 22 Tenn. L. Rev. 873.
The Tennessee Court System — Chancery Court (Frederic S. Le Clercq), 8 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 281.
Cited: Isaacks v. Edwards, 26 Tenn. 465, 1846 Tenn. LEXIS 160 (1846); Wilson v. Beadle, 39 Tenn. 510, 1859 Tenn. LEXIS 263 (1859); W. & O. Constr. Co. v. IVS Corp., 688 S.W.2d 67, 1984 Tenn. App. LEXIS 3187 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1984).