8-8-204 - Judgment on motion for failure to pay over. - Tennessee Statutes

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8-8-204. Judgment on motion for failure to pay over.

If the sheriff fails to do so, the clerk or magistrate shall furnish the district attorney general with the records, executions, and such other information as may be in the sheriff's possession, to show the liability of the officer, and the district attorney general shall move for judgment, in the name of the county, against the sheriff and the sheriff's sureties for the moneys by the sheriff collected, or that ought to have been collected, for the use of the county. Upon judgment, when obtained, the clerk or judge shall issue execution, and enforce satisfaction of such execution.

[Code 1858, § 519; Shan., § 658; Code 1932, § 1057; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, §§ 2, 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-813.]

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8-8-204. Judgment on motion for failure to pay over.

If the sheriff fails to do so, the clerk or magistrate shall furnish the district attorney general with the records, executions, and such other information as may be in the sheriff's possession, to show the liability of the officer, and the district attorney general shall move for judgment, in the name of the county, against the sheriff and the sheriff's sureties for the moneys by the sheriff collected, or that ought to have been collected, for the use of the county. Upon judgment, when obtained, the clerk or judge shall issue execution, and enforce satisfaction of such execution.

[Code 1858, § 519; Shan., § 658; Code 1932, § 1057; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, §§ 2, 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-813.]

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8-8-204. Judgment on motion for failure to pay over.

If the sheriff fails to do so, the clerk or magistrate shall furnish the district attorney general with the records, executions, and such other information as may be in the sheriff's possession, to show the liability of the officer, and the district attorney general shall move for judgment, in the name of the county, against the sheriff and the sheriff's sureties for the moneys by the sheriff collected, or that ought to have been collected, for the use of the county. Upon judgment, when obtained, the clerk or judge shall issue execution, and enforce satisfaction of such execution.

[Code 1858, § 519; Shan., § 658; Code 1932, § 1057; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, §§ 2, 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-813.]