Proceedings to recover real property or the proceeds of personalty escheated, shall be by bill to open the decree declaring the escheat, in the court in which the escheat was decreed.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 89 - Real and Personal Property
§ 89-11-1. When property shall escheat
§ 89-11-3. County administrator or sheriff is escheator; his duty, and duty of the assessor
§ 89-11-5. Proceedings to establish escheats
§ 89-11-7. What persons summoned; publication made
§ 89-11-9. A claimant not a party may answer
§ 89-11-11. Proceedings in court
§ 89-11-13. Persons in possession liable for rent or hire of escheated property
§ 89-11-15. Reports by escheator
§ 89-11-17. Sale of escheated personalty; payment of debts
§ 89-11-19. How real estate subjected to payments of debts
§ 89-11-21. Where escheated land is recovered from the purchaser
§ 89-11-23. Proceeds of personal property reclaimed
§ 89-11-25. Proceedings, where had
§ 89-11-27. Costs shall be allowed as in other cases
§ 89-11-29. Institution of escheat proceedings
§ 89-11-31. Sale of severed minerals which escheat to the state