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Tenn. Code Ann. § 20-1-107 (2026)

Several liability on joint obligations

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All joint obligations and promises are made joint and several, and the debt or obligation shall survive against the heirs and personal representatives of deceased obligors as well as against the survivors, and suits may be brought and prosecuted on the obligations and promises against all or any part of the original obligors, and all or any part of the representatives of deceased obligors, as if such obligations and assumptions were joint and several.

Code 1858, § 2789 (deriv. Acts 1789, ch. 57, § 5); Shan., § 4486; Code 1932, § 8613; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-108.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2010–2010 · leading case: State Ex Rel. Comm'r of the Dep't of Transp. v. Thomas, 336 S.W.3d 588 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2010).
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State Ex Rel. Comm'r of the Dep't of Transp. v. Thomas, 336 S.W.3d 588 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2010). · cites it 2× “” T.C.A. § 20-1-107. Any involvement of real property in Thomas’s claims against TDOT is tangential at most; the thrust of his claims are that TDOT officials acted in an unfair manner toward him with respect to his applications for billboard permits.”
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