29-27-101 - Persons entitled. - Tennessee Statutes

29-27-101. Persons entitled.

Any person having an estate of inheritance, or for life, or for years, in lands, and holding or being in possession thereof, as tenant in common or otherwise, with others, is entitled to partition thereof, or sale for partition, under the provisions of this chapter.

[Code 1858, § 3262 (deriv. Acts 1787, ch. 17, § 1; 1789, ch. 24, § 1; 1799, ch. 11, § 1; 1815, ch. 123, § 1; 1853-1854, ch. 48, § 1); Shan., § 5010; Code 1932, § 9165; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-2101.]