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26-1-303. Penalties for failure to endorse or docket.

Any clerk neglecting the provisions of § 26-1-301 or § 26-1-302 is liable to a penalty of one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125), to be recovered by action, one half (½) to the informer and the other one half (½) to the state, to damages at the suit of the party aggrieved, and commits a Class C misdemeanor, for which, on conviction, such clerk shall be removed from office.

[Code 1858, § 3017 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 9); Shan., § 4745; Code 1932, § 8879; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 26-123; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.]

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26-1-303. Penalties for failure to endorse or docket.

Any clerk neglecting the provisions of § 26-1-301 or § 26-1-302 is liable to a penalty of one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125), to be recovered by action, one half (½) to the informer and the other one half (½) to the state, to damages at the suit of the party aggrieved, and commits a Class C misdemeanor, for which, on conviction, such clerk shall be removed from office.

[Code 1858, § 3017 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 9); Shan., § 4745; Code 1932, § 8879; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 26-123; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.]

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26-1-303. Penalties for failure to endorse or docket.

Any clerk neglecting the provisions of § 26-1-301 or § 26-1-302 is liable to a penalty of one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125), to be recovered by action, one half (½) to the informer and the other one half (½) to the state, to damages at the suit of the party aggrieved, and commits a Class C misdemeanor, for which, on conviction, such clerk shall be removed from office.

[Code 1858, § 3017 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 9); Shan., § 4745; Code 1932, § 8879; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 26-123; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.]