Category: Common law rights

A teenager who lives down the road from you does a great job mowing your lawn. You engaged him last summer for the second year to chop and trim …

Tennessee law allows a highway patrol officer to stop someone apart from any perceived or alleged offense for the “sole purpose” of checking that person’s driver license. How is …

We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or other officials, only men that know the law of the realm and are minded to keep it well. — The Magna …

FRANKLIN, Tenn. — Eleven Christian ministers from across the state of Tennessee, along with Tennessee Independent Baptists for Religious Liberty, Inc., filed on Nov. 19 a Petition for Declaratory Order with …

Private use of roads is not taxable and under law free. But commercial use is taxable and subject to police power. If the driver license is a taxable privilege, …

Lawyers rarely know the constitution and do not think about law in terms of the constitutional guarantees of the people. They presuppose the state, and its laws, and if …

Administrative agencies such as Department of Safety and Homeland Security are required to obey the UAPA — the uniform administrative procedures act in Title 4 of the Tennessee code. …