Mississippi Code
Chapter 7 - Landlord and Tenant
§ 89-7-1. Goods not to be removed until rent paid

No goods or chattels, lying or being in or upon any messuage, lands or tenements, leased or rented for life, years, at will, or otherwise, shall at any time be liable to be taken by virtue of any writ of execution, or other process whatever, unless the party so taking the same shall, before the removal of the goods or chattels from such premises, pay or tender to the landlord or lessor thereof, all the unpaid rent for the said premises, whether the day of payment shall have come or not, provided it shall not amount to more than one (1) year's rent; and the party suing out such execution or other process, paying or tendering to such landlord or lessor the rent unpaid, not to exceed one (1) year's rent, may proceed to execute his judgment or process; and the officer levying the same shall be empowered and required to levy and pay to the plaintiff as well the money so paid for rent, as the money due under the process, and when the rent contracted for is payable, not in money, but in other things, the creditor shall pay the landlord the money value of such things.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 89 - Real and Personal Property

Chapter 7 - Landlord and Tenant

§ 89-7-1. Goods not to be removed until rent paid

§ 89-7-3. Tenant not bound to pay rent for, or to restore, buildings destroyed; exception

§ 89-7-5. Action for use and occupation where there is no contract

§ 89-7-7. Remedy by action for rent in arrear

§ 89-7-9. Death of tenant for life; apportionment of rent

§ 89-7-11. Rent assets in hands of personal representative

§ 89-7-13. Executor or administrator may sue or distrain

§ 89-7-15. Rights of assignees of lessor

§ 89-7-17. Grants of rents, good without attornment

§ 89-7-19. Attornment of tenant to stranger void; exception

§ 89-7-21. Rights of lessees against assignees of lessor

§ 89-7-23. Notice to terminate tenancy

§ 89-7-25. Tenant holding after notice liable for double rent

§ 89-7-27. Proceedings against tenant holding over

§ 89-7-29. Affidavit to remove

§ 89-7-33. Service of summons

§ 89-7-37. Defense may be made

§ 89-7-39. Continuances, subpoenas

§ 89-7-43. Judgment for defendant

§ 89-7-45. When warrant for removal may issue in cases of nonpayment of rent

§ 89-7-47. Record, appeals

§ 89-7-49. Proceedings when tenant deserts premises

§ 89-7-53. Lien for live stock, implements and vehicles

§ 89-7-55. Attachment for rent and supplies; who entitled to and for what

§ 89-7-57. How obtained

§ 89-7-59. Before whom complaint made

§ 89-7-61. Writ

§ 89-7-63. Form of affidavit

§ 89-7-65. Form of bond

§ 89-7-67. Form of the writ

§ 89-7-69. Goods sold if not replevied

§ 89-7-71. Form of bond for payment of rent

§ 89-7-73. Bond delivered to lessor, and proceedings thereon

§ 89-7-75. Remedy when claim not due in certain cases

§ 89-7-77. Goods removed before debt due, distrained

§ 89-7-79. Goods removed, seized within thirty days

§ 89-7-81. Distress may be made after termination of lease

§ 89-7-83. Sale of goods stopped without bond

§ 89-7-85. Distress to be reasonable, and property seized not to be removed from county

§ 89-7-87. Irregularities not to affect distress

§ 89-7-89. How goods replevied

§ 89-7-91. Summons or publication for party distraining

§ 89-7-93. Form of replevin-bond

§ 89-7-95. Party replevying to propound claim

§ 89-7-97. Form of declaration

§ 89-7-99. Pleas to the declaration

§ 89-7-101. The avowry

§ 89-7-103. The replication

§ 89-7-105. Replication in case rent not due

§ 89-7-107. Replevin; when triable, and judgment upon default

§ 89-7-109. Suit revived in case of death of party

§ 89-7-111. Judgment if trial results against lessor

§ 89-7-113. Papers transferred, if returned to wrong court

§ 89-7-115. Tenant's remedy against landlord

§ 89-7-117. Property of strangers not liable

§ 89-7-119. Replevin of property by strangers

§ 89-7-121. Form of affidavit by third person

§ 89-7-123. Proceedings to be as in replevin by tenant

§ 89-7-125. Burden of proof