20-12-112. Jurisdictional defects Irregular transfer.
Where a suit is dismissed from any court for want of jurisdiction or because it has not been regularly transferred from an inferior to a superior court, the costs shall be adjudged against the party attempting to institute or bring up the cause.
[Code 1858, § 3215 (deriv. Acts 1832, ch. 5); Shan., § 4957; Code 1932, § 9110; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-1612.]