Tenn. Code Ann. § 21-1-701
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Powers of clerk and master
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The clerk and master may, at the clerk and master's office: (1) Receive and enter on the rules the suggestion and proof of a party's death, and order and issue the necessary process to revive; (2) Make orders for publication against defendants in cases in which publication is allowed in lieu of personal service; (3) Take bills for confessed, and set aside the orders pro confesso, upon good cause shown and the filing of a sufficient answer; (4) Appoint guardians ad litem for infants, upon its being made to appear, by affidavit, that they have no general guardian; (5) Make orders for the taking of depositions, where those orders are necessary; and (6) Open causes for proof, on good cause shown, after they have been set for hearing, in the same way the chancellor might do. Code 1858, § 4420 (deriv. Acts 1787, ch. 22, § 1; 1845-1846, ch. 122, §§ 7-9); Shan., § 6232; mod. Code 1932, § 10515; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 21-901.
The clerk and master may, at the clerk and master's office:
(1) Receive and enter on the rules the suggestion and proof of a party's death, and order and issue the necessary process to revive;
(2) Make orders for publication against defendants in cases in which publication is allowed in lieu of personal service;
(3) Take bills for confessed, and set aside the orders pro confesso, upon good cause shown and the filing of a sufficient answer;
(4) Appoint guardians ad litem for infants, upon its being made to appear, by affidavit, that they have no general guardian;
(5) Make orders for the taking of depositions, where those orders are necessary; and
(6) Open causes for proof, on good cause shown, after they have been set for hearing, in the same way the chancellor might do.
Code 1858, § 4420 (deriv. Acts 1787, ch. 22, § 1; 1845-1846, ch. 122, §§ 7-9); Shan., § 6232; mod. Code 1932, § 10515; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 21-901.
The clerk and master may, at the clerk and master's office:
(1) Receive and enter on the rules the suggestion and proof of a party's death, and order and issue the necessary process to revive;
(2) Make orders for publication against defendants in cases in which publication is allowed in lieu of personal service;
(3) Take bills for confessed, and set aside the orders pro confesso, upon good cause shown and the filing of a sufficient answer;
(4) Appoint guardians ad litem for infants, upon its being made to appear, by affidavit, that they have no general guardian;
(5) Make orders for the taking of depositions, where those orders are necessary; and
(6) Open causes for proof, on good cause shown, after they have been set for hearing, in the same way the chancellor might do.
Code 1858, § 4420 (deriv. Acts 1787, ch. 22, § 1; 1845-1846, ch. 122, §§ 7-9); Shan., § 6232; mod. Code 1932, § 10515; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 21-901.
Status: in_force
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