Every conveyance by a sheriff, constable, marshal, master, commissioner, executor, administrator, guardian, trustee, or other person, in an official or representative character, shall be indexed by the clerk in proper alphabetical order as the conveyance of each person who executed it, and, in like manner, as the conveyance of each person whose property is sold and conveyed; and, for failure herein, he shall be liable in damages and for a penalty of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) to any person sustaining damage by such failure.
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