Mississippi Code
Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes
§ 1-3-73. Civil law to apply in construing

The civil law rule of computing kinship or relationship is hereby adopted and shall hereafter control in this state where the computation of relationship or kinship, either by blood or marriage, is brought in question in construing any legislative enactment or statutory law in the State of Mississippi.

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Mississippi Code

Title 1 - Laws and Statutes

Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes

§ 1-3-1. Application of chapter

§ 1-3-3. Bond

§ 1-3-4. Capital case, capital offense, capital crime, and capital murder

§ 1-3-5. Crime

§ 1-3-7. Drugs

§ 1-3-9. Established

§ 1-3-11. Felony

§ 1-3-13. Fertilizers

§ 1-3-15. Food

§ 1-3-17. Gender, masculine to embrace the feminine

§ 1-3-19. Infamous crime

§ 1-3-21. Infant

§ 1-3-23. Insurrection

§ 1-3-24. Intellectual disability

§ 1-3-25. Land

§ 1-3-26. Minimum education program, minimum program, minimum foundation program

§ 1-3-27. Minor

§ 1-3-29. Month

§ 1-3-31. Navigable waters

§ 1-3-33. Number, singular and plural

§ 1-3-35. Oath

§ 1-3-37. Offense

§ 1-3-39. Person

§ 1-3-41. Personal property

§ 1-3-43. Promissory note

§ 1-3-45. Property

§ 1-3-47. Railroad

§ 1-3-49. State

§ 1-3-51. Stationery

§ 1-3-53. Sworn

§ 1-3-55. United States

§ 1-3-57. Unsound mind

§ 1-3-58. Ward

§ 1-3-59. Will

§ 1-3-61. Written

§ 1-3-63. Year

§ 1-3-65. Construction of terms generally

§ 1-3-67. How time computed when a number of days is prescribed

§ 1-3-69. When a number of weeks is prescribed

§ 1-3-71. Civil law to control computation of relationship unless otherwise provided

§ 1-3-73. Civil law to apply in construing

§ 1-3-75. Petitions must be signed personally by petitioners

§ 1-3-76. Procedures for contesting disqualification of signatures on petition requesting vote on matter affecting county or municipality

§ 1-3-77. General severability provision