Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-24-103 (2026)
Conveyances of land
✓ current as of May 2026
If the instrument be a conveyance, or for the conveyance, of land, it shall be registered in the county where the land lies, unless it lies partly in two (2) or more counties, and then it may be registered in either; and where it contains several tracts of land, lying in different counties, it shall be registered in each of the counties where any of the tracts lie.
Code 1858, § 2032 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 90, § 5); Shan., § 3705; Code 1932, § 7625; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2403.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1984–2009 · leading case: Hendon v. G.E. Capital Mortg. Servs., Inc. (In Re Carpenter), 266 B.R. 671 (Bankr. E.D. Tenn. 2001).
Hendon v. G.E. Capital Mortg. Servs., Inc. (In Re Carpenter), 266 B.R. 671 (Bankr. E.D. Tenn. 2001). “§ 66-24-103 (1993). A Chapter 7 trustee may therefore utilize § 544(a) to avoid a trust deed improperly recorded under Tennessee law.”
Twinton Props. P'ship v. Nidiffer (In Re Twinton Props. P'ship), 44 B.R. 426 (Bankr. M.D. Tenn. 1984). “§ 66-24-103. Cole v. Warner, 93 Tenn. 155 , 23 S.”
Remote Woodyards, L.L.C. v. Est. of Neisler, 340 S.W.3d 411 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2009). “Specifically, Tenn.Code Ann. § 66-24-103 provides: Any instruments not so registered, or noted for registration, shall be null and void as to existing or subsequent creditors of, or bona fide purchasers from, the makers without notice.”
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