Notice when name of owner unknown

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TN Code › Title 57 › Chapter 9 › Section 57-9-110

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If the name of the person transporting, receiving or possessing intoxicating liquors which have been seized in accordance with this part be unknown to the sheriff or other officer seizing the same, then, in that event, the sheriff or other officer taking possession of the same shall so certify in the statement required to be filed by § 57-9-104 , and the clerk of such circuit or criminal court shall give notice to whom it may concern by notice posted at the courthouse door of the county within which such liquors were seized, setting forth in substance that such liquors have been seized in accordance with this part, and notifying all persons claiming same to do so within thirty (30) days from the date of the posting of such notice, and that if they fail to do so, they will forfeit all right in and to the same and that condemnation and forfeiture thereof will be in the nature of proceedings in rem. Acts 1919, ch. 50, § 6; Shan. Supp., § 6798a19b6; Code 1932, § 11229; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 57-611.

If the name of the person transporting, receiving or possessing intoxicating liquors which have been seized in accordance with this part be unknown to the sheriff or other officer seizing the same, then, in that event, the sheriff or other officer taking possession of the same shall so certify in the statement required to be filed by § 57-9-104 , and the clerk of such circuit or criminal court shall give notice to whom it may concern by notice posted at the courthouse door of the county within which such liquors were seized, setting forth in substance that such liquors have been seized in accordance with this part, and notifying all persons claiming same to do so within thirty (30) days from the date of the posting of such notice, and that if they fail to do so, they will forfeit all right in and to the same and that condemnation and forfeiture thereof will be in the nature of proceedings in rem.

Acts 1919, ch. 50, § 6; Shan. Supp., § 6798a19b6; Code 1932, § 11229; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 57-611.

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