21-1-102 - Oaths to bills. - Tennessee Statutes

21-1-102. Oaths to bills.

Bills required to be under oath may be sworn to in the state before any judge, clerk of a court, general sessions judge or notary public, whose attestation shall be deemed evidence of the fact. Bills required to be under oath may be sworn to out of the state, before a notary public, or a commissioner for this state, whose attestation shall be accompanied by the notary public's or commissioner's seal of office, or before a judge of the state, whose official character shall be attested by the clerk of the court in which the judge presides.

[Code 1858, §§ 4330, 4331 (deriv. Acts 1801, ch. 6, § 11; 1826, ch. 19, § 1); Shan., §§ 6140, 6141; Code 1932, §§ 10411, 10412; impl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 109, § 16; impl. am. Acts 1961, ch. 329, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1963, ch. 345, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, §§ 2, 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 21-106.]