And when the sale has been completed, the person making the same shall make report thereof in writing to the court, stating the time and place of sale, the name of the purchaser, and the amount of purchase money, and shall satisfy the court that the directions prescribed in the decree of sale and the law have been followed; and thereupon the court shall proceed to make a decree confirming the sale, unless good reason be shown to the contrary. And the court shall order the person who made the sale to make a conveyance to the purchaser of the land so sold; but if the sale be not reported to the following term, the court may compel the making of a proper report at a subsequent term, and may then confirm or set aside the same; and the person failing to make such report in proper time may be fined, as for a contempt, not exceeding one hundred dollars.
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