16-15-807 - Priority of time. - Tennessee Statutes

16-15-807. Priority of time.

When an execution issued from the judgment of a court of record, and an execution from a general sessions court's judgment, are levied on the same personal property, the execution first levied shall have preference.

[Code 1858, § 3078 (deriv. Acts 1845-1846, ch. 72); Shan., § 4806; Code 1932, § 8937; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, §§ 2, 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 19-618; Acts 1993, ch. 241, § 53; T.C.A., § 19-3-107.]