Such abstracts, copies, minutes, or extracts, or the copy thereof if so procured, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the chancery court and copies recorded and arranged in such form as the board of supervisors may direct. In case the originals have been lost or destroyed, or are not in the power of the party asking to use the same on any trial or other proceedings, copies of such abstracts, copies, minutes, or extracts, or any part thereof, duly certified by the chancery clerk, shall be admissible in evidence, and shall establish prima facie that all deeds or other instruments appearing thereby to have been executed by any person, were executed and acknowledged at the date given, according to law.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records
§ 25-55-1. Applicability of the chapter
§ 25-55-3. Remedy for lost record of deed
§ 25-55-5. Duty of chancellor and supervisors as to abstracts
§ 25-55-7. Effect of such abstracts
§ 25-55-13. Loss first discovered during trial
§ 25-55-17. Records of board of supervisors
§ 25-55-19. State, county, town, or levee board bonds or warrants
§ 25-55-21. Content of duplicate bond or warrant
§ 25-55-23. Duplicate for mutilated original
§ 25-55-28. Presentation of photocopy of state warrant where original has been lost or destroyed