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

In all cases where a board of trustees of any school district, governing authorities of any municipality or board of supervisors of any county in the State of Mississippi has heretofore attempted to convey or to obtain title to real property or any interest therein and thereafter any question of title arises with reference to the procedure of conveyance, description of the property attempted to be conveyed or obtained or other matters connected therewith, and the governing authority of said school district, municipality or county determines by order entered on its minutes that the said political subdivision is asserting no further claim of title, that at the time of said attempted conveyance or disposition of said property, if property was conveyed or disposed of by the political subdivision, the said political subdivision did then receive the fair and reasonable market value of said property, and that a period of at least five (5) years has elapsed from the date of the said original attempted conveyance or disposition or obtaining of title of said property; the said board of trustees of said school district, governing authorities of said municipality or board of supervisors of said county, as the case may be, is thereupon hereby authorized, in its discretion, to execute quitclaim deeds and disclaimers of title on behalf of said political subdivision, after which any right or claim of said political subdivision in and to said realty shall be cut off and not thereafter brought into issue. Any such quitclaim deed or disclaimer of title heretofore executed by or on behalf of said political subdivision in accordance with the foregoing shall likewise be valid if executed in accordance with the provisions hereof.

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