§ 10-447. Dockets.

(a)

There shall be one civil docket and one criminal docket for the court in which all cases shall be entered immediately upon the issuance of the warrant or process.

(b)

Upon the civil docket shall be entered the style of each case, the names of the attorneys for the parties, the date of issuance of the warrant and process, the name of the officer to whom delivered, the return of the process, in brief form the action of the court both interlocutory and final, orders, judgments, executions, garnishments, list of fees of the court, of the sheriff, his deputies, constables, game wardens, state highway patrolmen and other officers for their services, fees of witnesses for attendance, credits for payments upon judgments and upon costs, and the division of the court in which, and the judge by whom, the case was disposed of.

(c)

Upon the criminal docket shall be entered the style and number of each case, the date of the issuance of the warrant or process, the name of the officer to whom delivered, the return of the process in brief form, the action of the court, both interlocutory and final, orders, judgments, executions, garnishments, lists of fees of court, of the sheriff and all other officers for their respective services, fees of witnesses for attendance, credits for payments upon judgments and upon costs, and the division of the court in which, and the judge by whom, the case was disposed of. There shall be a direct and cross-index of each case in the civil docket and a direct index giving the name of the defendant on the criminal docket, so as to provide ready access to the record of each case.

(d)

On the criminal docket there shall be kept a column wherein the criminal warrant is charged to the officer taking out the warrant, and the officer who receives the warrant shall give a receipt for same. No warrant, criminal or civil, shall be taken from the office of the court until its issuance has been properly entered on the proper docket.

(Code 1992, § 9-282; Priv. Acts 1941, ch. 123, § 7)

State law reference

Similar provisions, T.C.A. § 16-15-304.