(a) The title to real estate in counties other than the county in which the judgment or decree is rendered, the bill in equity, judicial attachment, or lis pendens is filed, or from which attachments or executions are issued, shall not be in any manner affected, as to third parties (without actual notice thereof), by any lien, judgment, decree, bill in equity, judicial attachment, or lis pendens, levy of attachment, or levy of execution, till an abstract or memorandum of such proceeding, certified by the clerk or sheriff, as the case may be, shall have been filed for record in the register’s office of the county where the land lies.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 25-5-107

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) Such abstract shall be recorded in a book to be kept in such office, to be called the lien book.
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