Suits to confirm title to real estate, and suits to cancel clouds or remove doubts therefrom, shall be brought in the county where the land, or some part thereof, is situated; suits against executors, administrators, and guardians, touching the performance of their official duties, and suits for an account and settlement by them, and suits for the distribution of personalty of decedents among the heirs and distributees, and suits for the payment of legacies, shall be brought in the chancery court in which the will was admitted to probate, or letters of administration were granted, or the guardian was appointed; other suits respecting real or personal property may be brought in the chancery court of the county in which the property, or some portion thereof, may be; and all cases not otherwise provided may be brought in the chancery court of any county where the defendant, or any necessary party defendant, may reside or be found; and in all cases process may issue to any county to bring in defendants and to enforce all orders and decrees of the court.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure
Chapter 5 - Practice and Procedure in Chancery Courts
§ 11-5-3. Issue may be tried by a jury
§ 11-5-5. Change of venue in jury cases allowed
§ 11-5-31. Before whom answers of nonresidents may be sworn
§ 11-5-49. Answer not required in certain cases
§ 11-5-51. Answer or demurrer may be filed where answer not required
§ 11-5-75. Creditors may attack fraudulent conveyances
§ 11-5-79. Decree to operate as judgment of circuit court
§ 11-5-81. Fieri facias or garnishment on decrees for money
§ 11-5-83. Sheriff to execute decrees; clerk to issue process
§ 11-5-85. Decree to operate as a conveyance
§ 11-5-91. Reopening of judgment rendered on publication only
§ 11-5-93. Sales of realty under decrees
§ 11-5-95. Court may fix terms of sale
§ 11-5-97. Lien on land sold on credit
§ 11-5-99. Hour and adjournment of sales
§ 11-5-101. Person making sale not to purchase
§ 11-5-103. Report of sale of land
§ 11-5-105. On death of executor, or other person authorized, who shall sell or convey
§ 11-5-107. Sales, leases, partitions, may be reported and confirmed in vacation; proceedings
§ 11-5-109. Bond to prevent confirmation
§ 11-5-111. Decree for balance after sale of property
§ 11-5-113. Provisions applicable to all sales made by order or decree of the court
§ 11-5-115. Rights of infants saved
§ 11-5-123. New bond required when security insufficient in certain cases