Terms Used In Tennessee Code 43-38-1016

  • Cooperative: means an association organized under this title conducting business on a cooperative plan as provided under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 43-38-103
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts

A court may grant any equitable relief it considers just and reasonable in the circumstances or may dissolve a cooperative or direct that the dissolved entity is merged into another or new cooperative or other entity on the terms and conditions the court deems equitable.