If any person shall sell any lot or lots within any such city, town, or village, or addition thereto, before the plat or map thereof shall be recorded, he shall be liable to an action, to be brought for the use of the county, for Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00). The clerk of the chancery court shall institute the action upon the presentation to him for record of any deed to lots in any such city, town, or village, or addition thereto.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 19 - Counties and County Officers
Chapter 27 - Surveyors and Surveys
§ 19-27-1. Oath and bond of office
§ 19-27-7. Appointment of deputies
§ 19-27-9. Swearing the chain-bearers
§ 19-27-11. Surveyor may enter premises without consent in certain cases
§ 19-27-13. Resurveying, re-marking and bounding lands and county boundary lines
§ 19-27-15. Reestablishing original marks
§ 19-27-17. How survey ordered for execution of judicial sales
§ 19-27-19. Making of survey when surveyor interested
§ 19-27-21. Maps and plats; making thereof
§ 19-27-23. Maps and plats; form
§ 19-27-25. Maps and plats; contents
§ 19-27-27. Maps and plats; recording
§ 19-27-29. Maps and plats; penalty for selling lots before recording
§ 19-27-31. Maps and plats; alteration and vacation