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§ 13-3-1. Provisions of chapter applicable to all courts - The law of process as declared in this chapter, except...
§ 13-3-3. Style and date of process - The style of all process shall be, "The State of...
§ 13-3-5. The summons - First.- Upon the defendant personally, if to be found in...
§ 13-3-7 through 13-3-13. - Repealed by Laws of 1991, ch. 573, § 141, eff...
§ 13-3-15. Separate or additional summons; attachment against estate of defendant - Upon the request of the plaintiff, separate or additional summons...
§ 13-3-17. Substitution of parties in case of death of party - Substitution of parties in case of death of a party...
§ 13-3-25. Summons by publication for unknown heirs and unknown defendants - When unknown heirs are made parties defendant in any proceeding...
§ 13-3-27. Publication of summons - Publication of summons in all cases and in every court,...
§ 13-3-32. Publication-in what newspaper-presumption of continued qualification - All newspapers which were qualified to publish legal notices and...
§ 13-3-37. Sheriff to mark and return process - The sheriff shall mark on all process the day of...
§ 13-3-41. Service on one carrying on business in state by or through trustee or attorney in fact - All persons, firms, copartnerships or corporations carrying on business in...
§ 13-3-49. Service when defendant is a corporation - If the defendant in any suit or legal proceeding be...
§ 13-3-53. Service on one of several executors or administrators - If there be two or more executors or administrators of...
§ 13-3-55. Suits by or against partnerships; service on one of several partners - A partnership may sue or be sued in the partnership...
§ 13-3-57. Service on nonresident business not qualified to do business in state; survival of cause of action in case of death or inability to act; service on nonresident executor, administrator, etc. - Any nonresident person, firm, general or limited partnership, or any...
§ 13-3-63. Service when defendant is nonresident motorist; appointment of secretary of state as agent - The acceptance by a nonresident of the rights and privileges...
§ 13-3-69. Process not void for certain defects - If any matter required to be inserted in or indorsed...
§ 13-3-73. Plaintiff's options when sheriff kept off by force - When the sheriff shall return, on any process, that he...
§ 13-3-75. Return of alias where first writ served - If any process be executed, and for want of a...
§ 13-3-77. Process may be executed by an officer out of his county - The sheriff or other proper officer of a county may...
§ 13-3-81. When justice court judge may execute process - If there be no sheriff in any county, or if...
§ 13-3-83. Service of notices, summonses, subpoenas, orders, pleadings, motions, etc. - All notices provided for by law appertaining to actions, suits...
§ 13-3-85. Notice by summons of motions against officers for neglect of duty - In all cases where motions are made against officers, or...
§ 13-3-87. Return of officer may be questioned by parties - The return of the officer serving any process may, in...
§ 13-3-91. Reversal, on appeal by defendant, for want of service or defective service as an appearance - Where a judgment or decree is reversed on appeal taken...
§ 13-3-93. Subpoenas for witnesses - The first process, in all civil actions, and in all...
§ 13-3-103. Attachment for non-appearing subpoenaed witness - If any person subpoenaed as a witness shall fail to...
§ 13-3-105. Subpoenaed witness to attend until discharged; scire facias for defaulters - Every witness subpoenaed in any case, civil or criminal, shall...
§ 13-3-107. Settlement of certain civil suits; notice to be given to subpoenaed witnesses and effect of failure to do so - If a civil suit shall be settled in vacation, notice...
§ 13-3-109. Issuance of process by supreme court and its return - The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall issue all process...
§ 13-3-111. Time when executions shall be issued - The clerks of all courts of law or equity, after...
§ 13-3-113. Issuance, execution, and return of executions - Writs of execution shall bear date and be issued in...
§ 13-3-115. Issuance of subsequent execution - If a first writ of execution shall not have been...
§ 13-3-117. Issuance of execution against several defendants - When one judgment has been recovered against several defendants, execution...
§ 13-3-119. Effect of death of one or more of several defendants before issuance of execution - If one or more of several defendants have died before...
§ 13-3-121. Execution for costs of Supreme Court - In cases decided in the Supreme Court, or dismissed or...
§ 13-3-123. Levy of writs of execution and attachments-on land - In case of a levy of an attachment on real...
§ 13-3-125. Levy of writs of execution and attachments - on personalty - If the levy be upon personal property the officer shall...
§ 13-3-127. Levy of writs of execution and attachments - on choses in action - In case an attachment be levied on rights, credits, and...
§ 13-3-129. Levy of writs of execution and attachments - on corporate stock and the like - In case of the levy of an execution or attachment...
§ 13-3-131. Levy of writs of execution and attachments - on interest of partners or co-owners - When a defendant in execution shall own or be entitled...
§ 13-3-135. Purchaser's title to certain interests of defendant sold under execution or attachment - The purchaser of any chose in action, stock, share, interest,...
§ 13-3-137. Growing crop shall not be levied upon - An execution shall nor be levied upon a growing crop,...
§ 13-3-139. Lien of executions, and priority thereof - Writs of executions, where there is no judgment lien, shall...
§ 13-3-141. Officer to care for property and allowed expenses - When a sheriff or other officer shall levy an execution...
§ 13-3-143. Manner by which personal representative or successor thereof of plaintiff may have execution - When the executor or administrator of a plaintiff who dies...
§ 13-3-145. Effect of death of one or more of several plaintiffs before issuance of execution - The death of one or more of several plaintiffs in...
§ 13-3-147. Assignee of a judgment may have execution - The assignee of a judgment, where the plaintiff has died,...
§ 13-3-149. Effect of death of party after execution issued - The death of any plaintiff or defendant after the issuance...
§ 13-3-151. Execution issued against dead defendant - After one year from the death of any defendant in...
§ 13-3-153. Motion to revive judgment - Those provisions of the Mississippi Code of 1972 relating to...
§ 13-3-155. Execution and garnishment on certain judgments and decrees of other courts may be issued by clerk - The clerk of the circuit court in whose office any...
§ 13-3-157. When a bond of indemnity shall be required - If the sheriff shall levy an execution, attachment, or writ...
§ 13-3-159. Remedy on bond of indemnity - If the bond and security required under Section 13-3-157 be...
§ 13-3-161. Where sales under execution or other process are to be made - All sales by any sheriff by virtue of an execution...
§ 13-3-167. Sale of perishable goods - When goods and chattels are levied on, which by their...
§ 13-3-171. Lands to be sold to be offered in subdivisions and as an entirety - All lands comprising a single tract, sold under execution, shall...
§ 13-3-173. Sale may be adjourned or continued from day to day - Whenever, from a defect of bidders, caused by inclement weather...
§ 13-3-175. Venditioni exponas - If any property taken in execution shall remain in the...
§ 13-3-177. Venditioni exponas to issue when officer taking property dies - When the officer taking property under execution shall die before...
§ 13-3-179. Procedure to be followed where property is not delivered by representatives of deceased officer taking property - If the representatives of the deceased officer shall refuse or...
§ 13-3-181. Duty of officer to examine judgment-roll; priority of liens - After the sale of any property by the sheriff or...
§ 13-3-183. Officer to restore money on injunction of execution - When an officer shall receive under execution the whole or...
§ 13-3-185. How purchaser takes property sold at execution sale - The purchaser of any property sold at execution sale by...
§ 13-3-187. Conveyance of land sold under execution or other process - When lands are sold by virtue of any writ of...
§ 13-3-189. Completion of title under justice's execution - The title to land sold under execution issued by a...