Mississippi Code
In General
§ 89-1-13. Limitation on failure of issue

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

Mississippi Code

Title 89 - Real and Personal Property

Chapter 1 - Land and Conveyances

In General

§ 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

§ 89-1-25. Quitclaim deeds and disclaimers of title by school district boards of trustees, municipalities and boards of supervisors

§ 89-1-27. Conveyances by masters, commissioners, sheriffs or other officers

§ 89-1-29. Spouse's role in conveying homestead; incompetent spouse; limited power of attorney in conveyance of homestead

§ 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

§ 89-1-53. Mortgages and deeds of trust on land; to be referred to in deed of conveyance under foreclosure proceedings

§ 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

§ 89-1-63. Deed of trust or mortgage; power of sale; relationship of trustee to other party to deed of trust; beneficiary may purchase at sale made under power of sale; appointment or substitution of trustee by beneficiary

§ 89-1-65. Sheriff's conveyance

§ 89-1-67. Conveyance by administrator, executor, guardian, master, or commissioner