Every contingent limitation in any conveyance or will made to depend upon the dying of any person without heirs or heirs of the body, or without issue or issue of the body, or without children, or offspring, or descendant, or other relative, shall be held and interpreted as a limitation, to take effect when such person shall die not having such heir, or issue, or child, or offspring, or descendant, or other relative, as the case may be, living at the time of his death, or born to him within ten (10) months thereafter, unless the intention of such limitation be otherwise expressly and plainly declared on the face of the instrument creating it.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 89 - Real and Personal Property
Chapter 1 - Land and Conveyances
§ 89-1-1. Land conveyed to vest immediately or in future
§ 89-1-3. Land to be conveyed only by writing
§ 89-1-5. Words of inheritance not necessary
§ 89-1-7. Estate in two or more persons
§ 89-1-9. The rule in Shelley's Case abolished
§ 89-1-11. Remainder good without particular estate
§ 89-1-13. Limitation on failure of issue
§ 89-1-15. Estates in fee tail prohibited
§ 89-1-17. Alienation good for grantor's interest; remainder not affected
§ 89-1-19. Right of entry not tolled by death of disseizor
§ 89-1-21. How body politic, public or private corporation may convey land
§ 89-1-23. Aliens holding land
§ 89-1-27. Conveyances by masters, commissioners, sheriffs or other officers
§ 89-1-33. Effect of word "warrant" in conveyance
§ 89-1-35. Effect of words "warrant specially."
§ 89-1-37. Effect of a conveyance without warranty
§ 89-1-39. Effect of quitclaim and release
§ 89-1-41. Effect of words "grant, bargain, sell."
§ 89-1-43. Mortgages and trust estates; trust estates subject to execution
§ 89-1-45. Mortgage for purchase money of land
§ 89-1-47. Deed not shown to be mortgage by parol evidence
§ 89-1-51. Trustee may acknowledge satisfaction
§ 89-1-55. How lands sold under mortgages and deeds in trust
§ 89-1-57. Deed of trust or mortgage; how sale made when terms not specified
§ 89-1-59. Accelerated debt may be reinstated by payment of all default before sale
§ 89-1-61. Forms for conveyances
§ 89-1-65. Sheriff's conveyance
§ 89-1-67. Conveyance by administrator, executor, guardian, master, or commissioner