Mississippi Code
Chapter 19 - False Pretenses and Cheats
§ 97-19-51. Selling property previously sold or encumbered

If any person shall sell, barter, or exchange or mortgage, or give deed of trust on, any property, real or personal, which he had before sold, bartered, or exchanged, or obligated himself to sell, barter, or exchange, or which he had mortgaged, or in any manner encumbered, or on which he knows there is a lien of any kind by contract or by law, without informing the person to whom he so sells, barters, exchanges, or bargains, or mortgages or gives deed of trust on it, of the exact state of the property as affected by said acts or of the lien or incumbrance thereon, he shall be guilty of obtaining under false pretenses whatever he received from the person dealing with him, and shall, on conviction, be punished therefor, as for obtaining goods under false pretenses.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 97 - Crimes

Chapter 19 - False Pretenses and Cheats

§ 97-19-5. Citation of Sections 97-19-5 through 97-19-29

§ 97-19-7. Credit cards; construction of provisions

§ 97-19-9. Credit cards; definitions

§ 97-19-11. Credit cards; procuring issuance by false statements

§ 97-19-13. Credit cards; acquisition by theft or artifice; unlawful sales and purchases; receipt of cards issued in another's name

§ 97-19-15. Credit cards; controlling card as security for debt

§ 97-19-17. Credit cards; forgery

§ 97-19-19. Credit cards; signing with intent to defraud

§ 97-19-23. Credit cards; furnishing things of value on forged or unlawfully obtained card; failing to give value represented as given

§ 97-19-25. Credit cards; possession of incomplete cards or plates and devices for their reproduction

§ 97-19-27. Credit cards; receipt of things of value in violation of law

§ 97-19-29. Credit cards; penalty for violation of Sections 97-19-5 through 97-19-29

§ 97-19-33. False personation; personating another to marry, become bail or surety, confess judgment, acknowledge recorded instrument, or act in suit

§ 97-19-35. False personation; personating another to receive money or property

§ 97-19-37. False personation; masquerading as deaf person

§ 97-19-41. Obtaining signature or thing of value with intent to defraud; penalty for using false negotiable instrument

§ 97-19-43. Patriotic and fraternal organizations; unauthorized use of membership buttons, insignia, etc.

§ 97-19-45. Producing child with intent to intercept inheritance

§ 97-19-47. Receiving deposits when bank is insolvent

§ 97-19-49. Registering animal falsely; giving false pedigree

§ 97-19-51. Selling property previously sold or encumbered

§ 97-19-53. Substituting child to deceive parent or guardian

§ 97-19-57. Bad checks, electronically converted checks, electronic commercial debits; presumption of fraudulent intent; notice that check or electronic fund transfer has not been paid; notice returned undelivered as evidence of intent to defraud; tr...

§ 97-19-61. Bad checks, electronically converted check, electronic commercial debit; when notice need not be given

§ 97-19-65. Bad checks, electronically converted checks, electronic commercial debits; each violation constitutes a separate offense

§ 97-19-69. Bad checks, electronically converted checks, electronic commercial debits; non-liability for causing arrest or imprisonment of drawer

§ 97-19-79. District attorney to file court complaint upon failure of accused to make restitution

§ 97-19-81. Right of lender to add fee to amount of loan when payment on loan made with bad check