Mississippi Code
Title 85 - Debtor-Creditor Relationship
Chapter 3 - Exempt Property

§ 85-3-1. Property exempt from seizure under execution or attachment - There shall be exempt from seizure under execution or attachment:...

§ 85-3-2. Certain federal exemptions prohibited - In accordance with the provisions of Section 522(b) of the...

§ 85-3-3. Execution or attachment of personal property; selection of exempt property - Where an officer shall be about to levy an execution...

§ 85-3-5. Execution or attachment of personal property; plaintiff's indemnity bond; liability of officer - If any sheriff or other officer shall levy or be...

§ 85-3-7. Execution or attachment of personal property; defendant may sue on plaintiff's indemnity bond - After the execution of such bond, the defendant in the...

§ 85-3-9. Execution or attachment of personal property; replevy by defendant - Any defendant whose exempt property is seized may replevy the...

§ 85-3-13. Proceeds of life insurance policy; payable to executor; limits - The proceeds of a life insurance policy not exceeding Fifty...

§ 85-3-15. Proceeds of life insurance policy; unassigned policies - The proceeds of all unassigned life insurance policies payable to...

§ 85-3-17. Judgment for personal injury - The proceeds of any judgment not exceeding Ten Thousand Dollars...

§ 85-3-19. Beneficiaries of deceased plaintiff take damages free from debts - Whenever suit was begun in the name of the party...

§ 85-3-21. Homestead exemption; land and buildings - Every citizen of this state, male or female, being a...

§ 85-3-23. Homestead exemption; land and buildings; insurance proceeds; personal property - Every citizen of this state, male or female, being a...

§ 85-3-25. Homestead declaration; form; deposit with clerk of chancery court - Any citizen entitled to a homestead and desiring to select...

§ 85-3-27. Homestead declaration; effect - The declaration, for not more than one hundred sixty (160)...

§ 85-3-29. Homestead declaration; recording - The clerk shall file, certify, record, and alphabetically index the...

§ 85-3-31. Homestead designated by law when not selected - The homestead of every citizen entitled to such an exemption...

§ 85-3-33. Heirs may designate homestead - In all cases where a deceased person has left a...

§ 85-3-35. Allotment of homestead; selection of householders or freeholders to set off portion of land - If the land on which the person claiming the exemption...

§ 85-3-37. Allotment of homestead; premises not capable of division - If the premises be not capable of being so divided...

§ 85-3-39. Allotment of homestead; how contested by plaintiff - If, before or after the return of the execution, the...

§ 85-3-41. Allotment of homestead; how contested by defendant - If a defendant be dissatisfied with the allotment, he may...

§ 85-3-43. Homestead liable to debts when debtor ceases to reside thereon - Whenever the debtor shall cease to reside on his homestead,...

§ 85-3-47. Property not exempt from execution - Property shall not be exempt from execution when the purchase-money...

§ 85-3-49. Exempt property may be disposed of - The exempt property, real or personal, disposed of by the...

§ 85-3-51. Exemptions allowed to residents only - The exemptions in this chapter shall be allowed in favor...