29-27-106 - Jurisdiction of courts. - Tennessee Statutes

29-27-106. Jurisdiction of courts.

(a)  The county, circuit, or chancery courts have concurrent jurisdiction of partition cases under the provisions of this chapter, by bill or petition.

(b)  Nothing in this chapter shall deprive the chancery court of the jurisdiction rightfully belonging to that court over the subject of partition and sales of realty for the purposes of division.

[Code 1858, §§ 3266, 3267 (deriv. Acts 1835-1836, ch. 20, § 1; 1849-1850, ch. 185, § 1; 1851-1852, ch. 92, § 1); Shan., §§ 5014, 5015; Code 1932, §§ 9169, 9170; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 23-2106.]