When a tenant, being lawfully notified by his landlord, shall fail or refuse to quit the demised premises and deliver up the same as required by the notice, or when a tenant shall give notice of his intention to quit the premises at a time specified, and shall not deliver up the premises at the time appointed, he shall, in either case, thenceforward pay to the landlord double the rent which he should otherwise have paid, to be levied, sued for, and recovered as the single rent before the giving of notice could be; and double rent shall continue to be paid during all the time the tenant shall so continue in possession.
Structure 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
§ 89-7-37. 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
§ 89-7-49. 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
§ 89-7-59. Before whom complaint made
§ 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
§ 89-7-105. 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