The owner in possession of any land, or the owner thereof who may be out of possession, if there be no adverse occupancy thereof, may file a bill in the chancery court to have his title confirmed and quieted. The law for notice, process, proceedings, and practice, as provided for confirming and quieting tax titles shall apply, no matter by what tenure the complainant may hold. Unknown and nonresident parties may be made defendants as they are made defendants to proceedings to confirm tax titles. If on the final hearing of any such suit, the court shall be satisfied that the complainant is the real owner of the land, it shall so adjudge, and its decree shall be conclusive evidence of title as determined from the date of the decree as against all parties defendant.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure
Chapter 17 - Suits to Confirm Title or Interest and to Remove Clouds on Title
§ 11-17-1. Proceedings to confirm tax title
§ 11-17-3. Confirmation of state land patents
§ 11-17-5. Confirmation of state land patents; duty of attorney general
§ 11-17-7. Confirmation of state land patents; powers of court
§ 11-17-11. Confirmation of state land patents; appeals
§ 11-17-13. Confirmation of state land patents; res judicata
§ 11-17-15. Confirmation of state land patents; duty of district attorney and county attorney
§ 11-17-17. Confirmation of state land patents; construction of Sections 11-17-3 through 11-17-17
§ 11-17-19. Confirmation of title or interests granted by political subdivision
§ 11-17-21. Proceedings in suit for confirmation of title granted by political subdivision; defaults
§ 11-17-23. Confirmation of title or interest granted by political subdivision; decree; res judicata
§ 11-17-25. Confirmation of title or interest granted by political subdivision; appeals
§ 11-17-29. Any other title may be confirmed
§ 11-17-31. Removing clouds upon titles
§ 11-17-33. Receiver appointed for nonresident or unknown owners of mineral interests
§ 11-17-34. Disposition of mineral lease proceeds held by receiver
§ 11-17-35. Title of complainant must be deraigned-and decrees, in certain cases, recorded as deeds