Tennessee Code 29-7-102 – Wages earned and payable outside state
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 29-7-102
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Wages earned out of this state and payable out of this state shall be exempt from attachment or garnishment in all cases, where the cause of action arose out of this state, and it shall be the duty of garnishees in such cases to plead such exemption unless the defendant is actually served with process.