In order to obtain an attachment, the plaintiff, plaintiff's agent or attorney, shall make oath in writing, stating the nature and amount of the debt or demand, and that it is a just claim; or, if the action is for a tort, that the damages sued for are justly due the plaintiff or plaintiffs, as affiant believes, but that the true amount of such damages is not ascertained; and, also, that one (1) or more of the causes enumerated in §29-6-101 exists.
Code 1858, § 3469 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 19; 1837-1838, ch. 166, § 3); Acts 1865-1866, ch. 22, § 1; integrated in Shan., § 5229; Code 1932, § 9416; T.C.A (orig. ed.), § 23-613.
Textbooks. Gibson's Suits in Chancery (7th ed., Inman), §§ 119, 329, 407, 418.
Tennessee Jurisprudence, 3 Tenn. Juris., Attachment and Garnishment, §§ 5, 26, 28, 70, 98, 111.
Law Reviews.
Commencing an Action by Garnishment, 23 Tenn. L. Rev. 211.
Constitutional Law — Pinsky v. Duncan: Due Process and the Death of a Prejudgment Attachment Statute, 21 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 413 (1991).
Recent Developments in Tennessee and Federal Procedure (Donald F. Paine), 36 Tenn. L. Rev. 276.
Cited: Smith v. Chris-More, Inc., 535 S.W.2d 863, 1976 Tenn. LEXIS 589 (Tenn. 1976); Citizens & S. Nat'l Bank v. Auer, 514 F. Supp. 631, 1977 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15593 (E.D. Tenn. 1977).