Where the remedy to enforce any mortgage, deed of trust, or other lien on real or personal property which is recorded, appears on the face of the record to be barred by the statute of limitations (which, as to a series of notes or a note payable in installments, shall begin to run from and after the maturity date of the last note or last installment), the lien shall cease and have no effect as to creditors and subsequent purchasers for a valuable consideration without notice, unless within six (6) months after such remedy is so barred the fact that such mortgage, deed of trust, or lien has been renewed or extended be entered on the margin of the record thereof, by the creditor, debtor, or trustee, attested by the clerk, or a new mortgage, deed of trust, or lien, noting the fact of renewal or extension, be duly filed for record within such time. If the date of final maturity of such indebtedness so secured cannot be ascertained from the face of the record the same shall be deemed to be due one (1) year from the date of the instrument securing the same for the purpose of this section. And where a suit shall have been brought to keep a judgment alive within seven (7) years from the rendition of such judgment, the general lien of such judgment shall expire as to creditors and subsequent purchasers for a valuable consideration, without notice, at the end of seven (7) years from the rendition of such judgment, notwithstanding such suit to keep alive the judgment unless a notation to keep alive such judgment shall be made on the judgment roll within six (6) months after the expiration of seven (7) years from the time of the rendition of such judgment.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 89 - Real and Personal Property
Chapter 5 - Recording of Instruments
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 89-5-1. Recording instruments; conveyances, acknowledgment, priority
§ 89-5-3. Conveyances, mortgages; void if not lodged for record
§ 89-5-7. Written contracts in relation to land recordable
§ 89-5-9. Copies of certain records may be recorded
§ 89-5-11. Patents issued by United States or this state recordable
§ 89-5-15. Transfer of record; debt to be noted on record
§ 89-5-17. Assignments of indebtedness to be marked on record
§ 89-5-19. When a lien appears by the record to be barred, it ceases
§ 89-5-23. Oil, gas, and mineral leases; cancellation of record upon expiration
§ 89-5-27. Receipt for instruments delivered to chancery clerk for recording
§ 89-5-29. Mortgages and deeds of trust on land; how recorded
§ 89-5-35. How certain conveyances indexed
§ 89-5-39. Books of record not to be removed
§ 89-5-41. Records in counties divided into two districts