Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 61-1-102 (2026)
Knowledge and notice
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) A person knows a fact if the person has actual knowledge of it.
- (b) A person has notice of a fact if the person:
- (1) Knows of it;
- (2) Has received a notification of it; or
- (3) Has reason to know it exists from all of the facts known to the person at the time in question.
- (c) A person notifies or gives a notification to another by taking steps reasonably calculated to inform the other person in ordinary course of business, whether or not the other person learns of it.
- (d) A person receives a notification when the notification:
- (1) Comes to the person's attention; or
- (2) Is duly delivered at the person's place of business or at any other place held out by the person as a place for receiving communications.
- (e) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (f), a person other than an individual knows, has notice, or receives a notification of a fact for purposes of a particular transaction when the individual conducting the transaction knows, has notice, or receives a notification of the fact, or in any event when the fact would have been brought to the individual's attention if the person had exercised reasonable diligence. The person exercises reasonable diligence if such person maintains reasonable routines for communicating significant information to the individual conducting the transaction and there is reasonable compliance with the routines. Reasonable diligence does not require an individual acting for the person to communicate information unless the communication is part of the individual's regular duties or the individual has reason to know of the transaction and that the transaction would be materially affected by the information.
- (f) A partner's knowledge, notice, or receipt of a notification of a fact relating to the partnership is effective immediately as knowledge by, notice to, or receipt of a notification by the partnership, but is not effective as such if the partner committed or consented to a fraud on the partnership.
Acts 2001, ch. 353.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2018–2022 · leading case: Dent Road Gen. P'ship v. Synovus Bank (Tenn. Ct. App. 2018).
Dent Road Gen. P'ship v. Synovus Bank (Tenn. Ct. App. 2018). “See Tenn. Code Ann. § 61-1-102 (“A partner’s knowledge, notice, or receipt of a notification of a fact relating to the partnership is effective immediately as knowledge by, notice to, or receipt of a notification by the partnership, but is not effective as such if the partner…”
Grange Ins. Co. v. The Steve Tolley & Pam Nelson Jt. Venture (E.D. Tenn. 2021). “Plaintiff argues that Defendants Tolley and Nelson could not rely on the Joint Venture’s commercial auto policy while acting in their individual capacities because the Joint Venture is a separate entity under Tennessee law. [Doc. 52, 54, p. 7].”
Marleta Costner v. Maryville-Alcoa-Blount Cnty. Parks & Rec. Comm'n (2022). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 61-1-102 (f). This argument lacks merit for multiple reasons.”
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