Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 26-4-104 (2026)
Lien lis pendens
✓ current as of May 2026
The creditor has a lien lis pendens upon the property of the defendant situated in the county of suit, if properly described in the bill of complaint, on the filing of the bill, so far as concerns the pursued defendant; and the creditor may have a lien lis pendens upon all property, so described, as against bona fide purchasers and encumbrancers, for value, upon registration of an abstract of the claimed lien as provided by this Code.
Code 1858, § 4286; Shan., § 6095; mod. Code 1932, § 10356; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 26-604.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 8
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1980–2022 · leading case: Atkins v. Marks, 288 S.W.3d 356 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2008).
Atkins v. Marks, 288 S.W.3d 356 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2008). “Tenn.Code Ann. § 26-4-104 (2000) (emphasis added); see Cannon Mills, 346 S.”
Union Planters Nat'l Bank v. Bell (In Re Bell), 55 B.R. 246 (Bankr. M.D. Tenn. 1985). “§ 29-12-101 and § 26-4-104 (Michie 1980). Section 29-12-101 provides that any creditor may file a bill in chancery to set aside a fraudulent conveyance of property and subject that property to the satisfaction of the debt.”
David Leonard Assocs., P.C. v. Airport-81 Nursing Care, Inc. (In Re Airport-81 Nursing Care, Inc.), 32 B.R. 960 (Bankr. E.D. Tenn. 1983). “§ 26-604 (1955), recodified in verbatim as Tenn.Code Ann. § 26-4-104 (1980). The statute enacts: Lien lis pendens.”
Bodin Apparel, Inc. v. Lowe, 614 S.W.2d 571 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1980). “(3) The allegation of the applicability of T.C.A. § 26-4-104. This is the lien lis pendens section of the chapter of the Tennessee Code Annotated passed for the purpose of allowing the filing of a bill in chancery court to compel the discovery of property owned by a judgment…”
Kreis v. Shope (In Re Ressler), 61 B.R. 403 (Bankr. E.D. Tenn. 1986). “§ 29-12-101 (1980) 5 and § 26-4-104 (1980), 6 Judge Lundin determined that a creditor entitled to avoid a fraudulent conveyance perfects a lien by filing a complaint and notice of lien lis pendens.”
McAllester v. Adams (In re Adams), 57 B.R. 1 (Bankr. M.D. Tenn. 1983). “This case illustrates that there are actually two forms of lis pendens liens in Tennessee; one for a judgment creditor who seeks to execute against the particular property (T.C.A. 26-4-104); and one for a person who brings suit involving a particular piece of property (T.”
Trena R. Jefferson v. Patricia A. Williams-Mapp (Tenn. Ct. App. 2022). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 26-4-104 . Even an equitable construction of [Appellant’s] Lien, which might allow the Lien itself to fulfill the notice function served by the required registration of a lien abstract, cannot obscure the fact that [Appellant] never filed a lawsuit properly…”
John Mark Atkins, surviving spouse & next of kin of Victoria H. Atkins, & as parent of Lauren Atkins v. Robert Clive Marks (Tenn. Ct. App. 2008). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 26-4-104 (2000) (emphasis added); see Cannon Mills, 346 S.”
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