When any of the children of a person dying intestate, or their descendants, shall have received from such intestate, in his lifetime, any real or personal estate by way of advancement, and shall choose to come into the partition and distribution of the estate with the other parceners and distributees, such advancement, both of real and personal estate, shall be brought into hotchpot with the whole estate, real and personal, descended. Such party bringing such advancement into hotchpot shall thereupon be entitled to his or her proper portion of the whole estate descended, both real and personal; but such advancement shall be valued according to its value at the time said distributee received it.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 1 - Descent and Distribution
§ 91-1-7. Descent of property as between husband and wife
§ 91-1-9. Descent of trust estates
§ 91-1-11. Personal estate to descend as real estate
§ 91-1-13. Estate of testator not disposed of by will to descend
§ 91-1-15. Descent among illegitimates; definitions
§ 91-1-17. Advancement to be brought into hotchpot
§ 91-1-19. Descent of exempt property
§ 91-1-21. Exempt property liable for debt of decedent
§ 91-1-23. Exempt property not to be partitioned in certain cases
§ 91-1-25. Person who has killed another not to inherit from him
§ 91-1-27. How title to property acquired by descent may be made
§ 91-1-29. Heirs to be cited to appear
§ 91-1-31. Judgment as to descent of property cannot be assailed collaterally except for fraud