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Part A — Applicability of Rules

1 Scope and Construction of Rules
2 Suspension of Rules

Part B — Appeal as of Right

3 Appeal as of Right: Availability; Method of Initiation
4 Appeal as of Right: Time for Filing Notice of Appeal D
5 Appeal as of Right: Service of Notice of Appeal; Docketing of the Appeal D
6 Security for Costs on Appeal
7 Stay or Injunction Pending Appeal D
8 Release in Criminal Cases D
8A Appeal as of Right in Termination of Parental Rights Cases D

Part C — General Provisions

9 Interlocutory Appeal by Permission from the Trial Court D
10 Extraordinary Appeal by Permission on Original Application in the Appellate Court D
11 Appeal by Permission from Appellate Court to Supreme Court D

Part D — Briefs

12 Direct Review of Administrative Proceedings by the Court of Appeals D
13 Scope of Review
14 Consideration of Post-Judgment Facts in the Appellate Court
15 Voluntary Dismissal D

Part E — Oral Argument; Submission on Briefs

16 Joint and Consolidated Appeals
17 Transfer of Cases Appealed to the Wrong Court
18 Appeals by Indigent Persons D

Part F — Decisions; Rehearings; Costs; Mandates

19 Substitution, Addition and Dropping of Parties
20 Filing and Service of Papers D
20A Facsimile Filing D
21 Computation and Extension of Time D

Part G — Extraordinary Appeals

22 Motions D
23 Duty of Clerk to Give Notice of Filed Orders
24 Content and Preparation of the Record D
25 Completion and Transmission of the Record D
26 Filing of the Record D

Part H — Proceedings in the Supreme Court

27 Content of Briefs
28 Optional Appendix to the Briefs
29 Filing and Service of Briefs D
30 Form of Briefs and Other Papers
31 Brief and Oral Argument of an Amicus Curiae D
32 Notice to Attorney General When Validity of Statute, Rule or Regulation Is Questioned

Part I — Special Proceedings

33 Prehearing Conference
34 Voluntary Mediation D
35 Conduct of Oral Argument
36 Relief; Effect of Error
38 Entry of Judgment; Copies of Opinion and Judgment
39 Rehearing D

Part J — General Provisions

40 Costs D
41 Interest on Judgments
42 Issuance, Stay, and Recall of Mandates From the Appellate Court D
43 Filing of Mandate in the Trial Court and Proceedings Thereafter D
44 Process in the Appellate Court
45 Rules by the Court of Appeals and Court of Criminal Appeals
47 Title
48 Forms
49 Effective Date

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Part J · General Provisions

Rule 47. Title

Amended July 1, 2025 (current)

These rules shall be known and cited as the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure.

Source: Tenn. R. App. P. 47

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