Mississippi Code
General Provisions
§ 9-1-39. Clerks of circuit, chancery and county courts in separate judicial districts in Harrison County

In Harrison County, a county having two judicial districts, the clerks of the circuit and chancery courts of said county shall be the clerks of the respective circuit and chancery courts in each of the districts aforesaid and the circuit clerk shall additionally be the clerk of the county court as provided by law, in each of said districts and they shall keep offices both at Gulfport and Biloxi, in which all books, records, dockets, papers and documents belonging to each of the courts of said district shall be kept respectively; and all dockets, records, papers and books required to be kept by law by clerks of the circuit, chancery and county courts in this state shall be kept by each of said clerks respectively at Gulfport and Biloxi, for each of said districts; and the enrollment of a judgment or decree in the district where the same may be rendered or obtained, shall be a lien on all property of the person against whom the same may be rendered within the district where so enrolled.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 9 - Courts

Chapter 1 - Provisions Common to Courts

General Provisions

§ 9-1-5. Extension into term in other county of same district

§ 9-1-9. Adjourning if the judge be absent

§ 9-1-11. Judge not to sit when interested or related

§ 9-1-17. Supreme Court, circuit, chancery and county courts and Court of Appeals may punish for contempt and refer certain persons for placement in restitution, house arrest or restorative justice center or program

§ 9-1-19. Authority of judges of supreme, circuit courts and chancellors and judges of Court of Appeals to grant remedial writs

§ 9-1-23. Judges conservators of peace; must reside in district

§ 9-1-25. Judges not to practice law

§ 9-1-27. Officers pro tempore to be appointed in certain cases

§ 9-1-29. Court to control clerk's office

§ 9-1-31. Records of office of clerk delivered to successor

§ 9-1-33. Minutes of Supreme Court, circuit, chancery and county courts and Court of Appeals

§ 9-1-35. Seal of court

§ 9-1-36. Office allowance for circuit judges, chancellors and certain staff; procedure to employ certain staff members; title to tangible property; reports; adoption of rules and regulations

§ 9-1-37. Allowance for stationery

§ 9-1-38. Certain judicial records exempt from public access requirements

§ 9-1-39. Clerks of circuit, chancery and county courts in separate judicial districts in Harrison County

§ 9-1-41. Reasonableness of attorneys' fees; evidence

§ 9-1-43. Limit on compensation of chancery clerks and circuit clerks and their related employees; liability on bonds; chancery court clerk clearing accounts; circuit court clerk clearing accounts; journals and receipts; punishment for failure to dep...

§ 9-1-44. Appropriation of funds from county general fund to supplement payment of expenses of office of chancery or circuit clerk under certain circumstances

§ 9-1-47. Municipal and justice courts authorized to purge judgment rolls of fines and fees owed by deceased person