Registration of Will as Muniment of Title

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Wills
4. Administration Upon Foreign Wills
5. Registration of Will as Muniment of Title

A copy of a will, foreign or domestic, certified by the clerk, may be registered in the county where the land lies as a muniment of title, and a copy from the books of the register, duly certified by the register, shall be evidence.

Code 1858, § 2183 (deriv. Acts 1823, ch. 31, § 2); Shan., § 3915; mod. Code 1932, § 8121; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-509.

Textbooks. Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates (4th ed., Phillips and Robinson), § 54.

Law Reviews.

The Tennessee Court System — Probate Courts, 8 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 461 (1978).

The Tennessee Recording System (Toxey H. Sewell), 50 Tenn. L. Rev. 1 (1982).

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