Tennessee Code § 66-23-104

One witness competent
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If all the subscribing witnesses are dead, insane, blind, or deaf or hard of hearing, except one (1), that witness may prove the execution of the instrument before the clerk or deputy clerk of the county, the handwriting of the other witness being proved by some other person. Amended by 2022 Tenn. Acts, ch. 642, s 1, eff. 3/11/2022. Code 1858, § 2055 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 90, § 10); Shan., §3730; mod. Code 1932, § 7645; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2304.
If all the subscribing witnesses are dead, insane, blind, or deaf or hard of hearing, except one (1), that witness may prove the execution of the instrument before the clerk or deputy clerk of the county, the handwriting of the other witness being proved by some other person. Amended by 2022 Tenn. Acts, ch. 642, s 1, eff. 3/11/2022. Code 1858, § 2055 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 90, § 10); Shan., §3730; mod. Code 1932, § 7645; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2304.
If all the subscribing witnesses are dead, insane, blind, or deaf or hard of hearing, except one (1), that witness may prove the execution of the instrument before the clerk or deputy clerk of the county, the handwriting of the other witness being proved by some other person. Amended by 2022 Tenn. Acts, ch. 642, s 1, eff. 3/11/2022. Code 1858, § 2055 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 90, § 10); Shan., §3730; mod. Code 1932, § 7645; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2304.
If all the subscribing witnesses are dead, insane, blind, or deaf or hard of hearing, except one (1), that witness may prove the execution of the instrument before the clerk or deputy clerk of the county, the handwriting of the other witness being proved by some other person.
Code 1858, § 2055 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 90, § 10); Shan., §3730; mod. Code 1932, § 7645; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2304.

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