Every person eighteen (18) years of age or older, being of sound and disposing mind, shall have power, by last will and testament, or codicil in writing, to devise all the estate, right, title and interest in possession, reversion, or remainder, which he or she hath, or at the time of his or her death shall have, of, in, or to lands, tenements, hereditaments, or annuities, or rents charged upon or issuing out of them, or goods and chattels, and personal estate of any description whatever, provided such last will and testament, or codicil, be signed by the testator or testatrix, or by some other person in his or her presence and by his or her express direction. Moreover, if not wholly written and subscribed by himself or herself, it shall be attested by two (2) or more credible witnesses in the presence of the testator or testatrix.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 5 - Wills and Testaments
§ 91-5-1. Who may execute; signature; attestation
§ 91-5-5. Children born after making of the will
§ 91-5-7. Bequests not to lapse in certain cases
§ 91-5-9. Devise to witness void
§ 91-5-13. Creditor competent witness to will
§ 91-5-17. Parties in interest to nuncupative will to be cited
§ 91-5-19. Nuncupative will not to be proven after six months unless reduced to writing
§ 91-5-21. Members of armed forces and mariners at sea excepted
§ 91-5-23. Provision for husband or wife to be in bar
§ 91-5-25. Right of spouse to renounce will; form of renunciation; right to intestate share
§ 91-5-27. Effect of no provision for husband or wife
§ 91-5-29. Effect of wife or husband having separate estate
§ 91-5-33. Person who kills another not to take under his will