Mississippi Code
Chapter 17 - Suits to Confirm Title or Interest and to Remove Clouds on Title
§ 11-17-37. Decrees as to possession, rents, etc.

In suits to try title, to cancel deeds and other clouds upon title, and to confirm title to real estate, the chancery court shall have jurisdiction to decree possession and to displace possession, to decree rents and compensation for improvements and taxes. In all cases where said courts heretofore exercised jurisdiction auxiliary to courts of common law, it may exercise such jurisdiction to grant the relief sought, although the legal remedy may not have been exhausted or the legal title established by a suit at law.

Structure Mississippi Code

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

§ 11-17-9. Confirmation of state land patents; decree; effect of fraud and failure to pay purchase price

§ 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

§ 11-17-27. Confirmation of title or interest granted by political subdivision; applicability of Sections 11-17-19 through 11-17-27

§ 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

§ 11-17-37. Decrees as to possession, rents, etc.