Section 21-1-701 - Powers of clerk and masterThe clerk and master may, at the clerk and master's office:
(1) Receive and enter on the rules the suggestion and proof of a party's death, and order and issue the necessary process to revive;(2) Make orders for publication against defendants in cases in which publication is allowed in lieu of personal service;(3) Take bills for confessed, and set aside the orders pro confesso, upon good cause shown and the filing of a sufficient answer;(4) Appoint guardians ad litem for infants, upon its being made to appear, by affidavit, that they have no general guardian;(5) Make orders for the taking of depositions, where those orders are necessary; and(6) Open causes for proof, on good cause shown, after they have been set for hearing, in the same way the chancellor might do.Code 1858, § 4420 (deriv. Acts 1787, ch. 22, § 1; 1845-1846, ch. 122, §§ 7-9); Shan., § 6232; mod. Code 1932, § 10515; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 21-901.