Tennessee Code Title 66. Property § 66-17-101

All keepers of hotels, boardinghouses, and lodging houses, whether licensed or not, shall have a lien on all furniture, baggage, wearing apparel, or other goods and chattels brought into any such hotel, boardinghouse, or lodging-house, by any guest or patron of the same, to secure the payment by such guest of all sums due for board or lodging.