66-11-113 - Materials exempt from attachment, execution or other process to enforce debt. - Tennessee Statutes

66-11-113. Materials exempt from attachment, execution or other process to enforce debt.

Whenever materials have been furnished to improve real property and delivered to the real property by or for a lienor, and payment for the materials has not been made by the owner of the real property, the materials shall not be subject to attachment, execution, or other legal process to enforce any debt due by the purchaser of the materials, except a debt due for the purchase price of the materials, so long as in good faith the materials are about to be applied to improve the real property; but if the owner has made payment for materials furnished, the materials shall not be subject to attachment, execution, or other process to enforce any debt, including the debt due for the purchase price for the materials.

[Code 1932, § 7923; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-1113; Acts 2007, ch. 189, § 13.]