Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-4-207 (2026)
Transfer warranties
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) A customer or collecting bank that transfers an item and receives a settlement or other consideration warrants to the transferee and to any subsequent collecting bank that:
- (1) The warrantor is a person entitled to enforce the item;
- (2) All signatures on the item are authentic and authorized;
- (3) The item has not been altered;
- (4) The item is not subject to a defense or claim in recoupment (§ 47-3-305(a)) of any party that can be asserted against the warrantor;
- (5) The warrantor has no knowledge of any insolvency proceeding commenced with respect to the maker or acceptor or, in the case of an unaccepted draft, the drawer; and
- (6) If the item is a payee-initiated demand draft, the creation of the item according to the terms on its face was authorized by the person on whose account the item is drawn.
- (b) If an item is dishonored, a customer or collecting bank transferring the item and receiving settlement or other consideration is obliged to pay the amount due on the item (i) according to the terms of the item at the time it was transferred, or (ii) if the transfer was of an incomplete item, according to its terms when completed as stated in §§ 47-3-115 and 47-3-407. The obligation of a transferor is owed to the transferee and to any subsequent collecting bank that takes the item in good faith. A transferor cannot disclaim its obligation under this subsection (b) by an endorsement stating that it is made "without recourse" or otherwise disclaiming liability.
- (c) A person to whom the warranties under subsection (a) are made and who took the item in good faith may recover from the warrantor as damages for breach of warranty an amount equal to the loss suffered as a result of the breach, but not more than the amount of the item plus expenses and loss of interest incurred as a result of the breach.
- (d) The warranties stated in subsection (a) cannot be disclaimed with respect to checks. Unless notice of a claim for breach of warranty is given to the warrantor within thirty (30) days after the claimant has reason to know of the breach and the identity of the warrantor, the warrantor is discharged to the extent of any loss caused by the delay in giving notice of the claim.
- (e) A cause of action for breach of warranty under this section accrues when the claimant has reason to know of the breach.
- (f) A warrantor does not make the warranty under subdivision (a)(6) to a transferee or subsequent collecting bank who would not under then-applicable law make the same or a substantially identical warranty to the warrantor with respect to a payee-initiated draft transferred by the transferee or subsequent collecting bank to the warrantor.
Acts 1963, ch. 81, § 1 (4-207); Acts 1995, ch. 397, § 3; 2003, ch. 62, §§ 15 - 18.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases, 1981–1998 · leading case: Lawyers Title Ins. v. United Am. Bank of Memphis, 21 F. Supp. 2d 785 (W.D. Tenn. 1998).
Lawyers Title Ins. v. United Am. Bank of Memphis, 21 F. Supp. 2d 785 (W.D. Tenn. 1998). “§ 47-4-302 provides: In the absence of a valid defense such as breach of a presentment warranty (§ 47-4-207(1)), settlement effected or the like, if an item is presented on and received by a payor bank the bank is accountable for the amount of: (A) a demand item other than a…”
McLemore v. Third Nat'l Bank (In Re Montgomery), 123 B.R. 801 (Bankr. M.D. Tenn. 1991). “§ 47-4-207 (warranty of customer to “take up the item”); TENN.”
Yeiser v. Bank of Adamsville, 614 S.W.2d 338 (Tenn. 1981). “— In the absence of a valid defense such as breach of a presentment warranty (subsection (1) of § 47-4-207), settlement effected or the like, if an item is presented on and received by a payor bank the bank is accountable for the amount of: (a) a demand item other than a…”
Brown v. Fed. Sav. Bank (In Re Brown), 209 B.R. 874 (Bankr. W.D. Tenn. 1997). “§§ 47-4-207, 208, 212, 414)(emphasis added).”
Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-4-207(1): 1 case
Lawyers Title Ins. v. United Am. Bank of Memphis, 21 F. Supp. 2d 785 (W.D. Tenn. 1998). “§ 47-4-302 provides: In the absence of a valid defense such as breach of a presentment warranty (§ 47-4-207(1)), settlement effected or the like, if an item is presented on and received by a payor bank the bank is accountable for the amount of: (A) a demand item other than a…”
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