Mississippi Code
Chapter 7 - Fees
§ 25-7-55. Witness to have only one fee for same time

A witness shall not be allowed compensation for his attendance in more than one case or on more than one side of the same case at the same time, but he may elect in which of several cases and on which side of a case in which he is summoned for both sides, to claim his attendance. The party who pays a witness shall be entitled to recover of the parties in other cases who were liable to such witness a just proportion of the amount to which the witness was entitled for his attendance as the witness of such parties during the same time; and a person who is compelled to attend court on other business shall not be paid as a witness.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records

Chapter 7 - Fees

§ 25-7-1. Lawful to demand specific fees only

§ 25-7-3. Clerk of the Supreme Court

§ 25-7-5. Payment of fee for recording opinions

§ 25-7-7. Fees due from state or county

§ 25-7-9. Clerks of the chancery court

§ 25-7-10. Additional allowance for chancery court clerks in certain counties

§ 25-7-11. Recording fees itemized

§ 25-7-13. Clerks of the circuit court

§ 25-7-14. Prepayment of chancery or circuit court fees by state or political subdivision

§ 25-7-17. Fees of circuit clerks in certain municipal appeals

§ 25-7-19. Sheriffs

§ 25-7-21. Tax collectors

§ 25-7-25. Justice courts

§ 25-7-27. Marshals and constables

§ 25-7-29. Notaries public

§ 25-7-31. Officers taking depositions

§ 25-7-33. Officers taking acknowledgments

§ 25-7-35. Commissioners, referees, auditors, and arbitrators

§ 25-7-37. County surveyors

§ 25-7-39. Payment of surveyor fees

§ 25-7-41. Rangers

§ 25-7-43. Fees for approving bond of county officer

§ 25-7-45. All officers administering oaths

§ 25-7-47. Witness fees

§ 25-7-49. Law enforcement officers to receive no witness fees in criminal cases

§ 25-7-51. Certificates for witness fees in civil cases

§ 25-7-53. Forfeiture of witness fees

§ 25-7-55. Witness to have only one fee for same time

§ 25-7-57. Witness in criminal cases

§ 25-7-59. Report of witness certificates payable out of county treasury

§ 25-7-61. Jurors; Lengthy Trial Fund

§ 25-7-63. Determination of compensation of jurors

§ 25-7-65. Printers and publishers

§ 25-7-67. Appraisers of the estates of decedents

§ 25-7-69. Officers and jurors in ad quod damnum proceedings

§ 25-7-71. To persons bringing back prisoner on extradition

§ 25-7-73. Expenses of returning felon

§ 25-7-75. Expenses of returning certain prisoners to other states

§ 25-7-77. Fees for attachment for rent

§ 25-7-79. Fees of officers and witness in unlawful entry and detainer court

§ 25-7-81. Secretary of State

§ 25-7-83. Executive Director of the Department of Finance and Administration

§ 25-7-85. Secretary of State; fee relating to land transactions

§ 25-7-87. Fees of state officers to be paid into Treasury

§ 25-7-89. Fee for transcript of testimony and exhibits to testimony, or copy of such transcript and exhibits