The judges of the chancery and circuit courts, and of other courts of record except the supreme court, court of appeals, and court of criminal appeals, at the first term after the election, or at the term of the appointment of the clerks, shall examine and attest the bonds by law required to be given by them, and cause the same to be recorded, and a certificate of such recording to be endorsed on the same by the clerks respectively.
Code 1858, § 720 (deriv. Acts 1839-1840, ch. 160, § 1); Shan., § 1033; mod. Code 1932, § 1762; T.C.A (orig. ed.), § 8-1927; Acts 1980, ch. 887, § 4.
Cross-References. Examination of clerk's bonds by chancellors, §18-2-207.
Examination of clerk's bonds by judges, §§18-2-210,18-2-211.
Grand jury examination of bonds, §18-2-212.
Textbooks. Gibson's Suits in Chancery (7th ed., Inman), § 617.