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Chapter 1 - Gambling and Future Contracts
§ 87-1-1. Utterly void - Contracts, judgments, securities, conveyances made, given, granted, or executed, where...
§ 87-1-3. Transfer of property to secure or pay, inures to wife and children of loser - Any sale, mortgage, transfer, or conveyance of any estate, real...
§ 87-1-5. Loser may sue and recover money or property lost; exceptions - If any person, by playing at any game whatever, or...
§ 87-1-7. Limitation on application of Sections 87-1-1 through 87-1-5 - Sections 87-1-1, 87-1-3 and 87-1-5 shall not apply to contracts...
§ 87-1-9. Future contracts; definitions - For the purposes of the following sections of this chapter...
§ 87-1-11. Certain exchanges authorized - There may be organized in any city in the State...
§ 87-1-13. Who may provide market quotations by wire - Only members of cotton exchanges, grain exchanges, boards of trade...
§ 87-1-17. Brokers may recover certain advances - Any broker, agent or any other person making advances to...
§ 87-1-19. When contracts of sale for future delivery of cotton, grain, stocks, or other commodities unenforceable - Any contract of sale for the future delivery of cotton,...
§ 87-1-21. "Bucket shop" defined - A "bucket shop" is hereby defined to be and mean...
§ 87-1-23. Penalties - Any person either as agent or principal, who knowingly enters...
§ 87-1-25. Unlawful to rent or lease premises to be used for conducting business prohibited by this chapter - Any person, whether as agent or owner, who shall rent...
§ 87-1-27. Gambling and future contracts; witnesses denied privilege against self incrimination - No person shall be excused in any prosecution under Sections...
§ 87-1-29. Principal entitled to certain written information - Every person shall furnish upon demand to any principal for...
§ 87-1-31. Prohibition against buying or selling futures - If any person shall buy or sell commodities of any...
§ 87-1-33. Penalty for dealing in futures - If any person shall deal in contracts called "futures," or...
Chapter 3 - Power and Letters of Attorney
In General
§ 87-3-1. Letters may be acknowledged and recorded - All letters of attorney intended to be used in this...
§ 87-3-3. Conveyances by attorney in fact - Conveyances of land, or contracts relating thereto, executed by an...
§ 87-3-5. When process may be executed on attorney - When a person interested in the administration of an estate...
§ 87-3-9. Form of letter of attorney to convey land - "Know all, that I, George Poindexter, of county, Mississippi, do...
§ 87-3-11. Form to represent party in administration of estate - "Know all, that I, C. C. Claiborne, of county, Mississippi,...
§ 87-3-15. Death not an absolute revocation - The death of the principal shall not operate a revocation...
§ 87-3-17. Revocation of letters of attorney recordable - Any writing revoking letters of attorney may, when acknowledged or...
Uniform Durable Power of Attorney Act
§ 87-3-101. Short title - Sections 87-3-101 through 87-3-113 may be cited as the "Uniform...
§ 87-3-103. Application and construction of sections 87-3-101 through 87-3-113 - Sections 87-3-101 through 87-3-113 shall be applied and construed to...
§ 87-3-105. Definition - A durable power of attorney is a power of attorney...
§ 87-3-107. Durable power of attorney not affected by lapse of time, disability or incapacity - All acts done by an attorney in fact pursuant to...
§ 87-3-113. Proof of continuance of durable and other powers of attorney by affidavit - As to acts undertaken in good faith reliance thereon, an...
Chapter 5 - Principal and Surety
§ 87-5-1. Surety discharged if creditor fails to sue the principal debtor when notified - Any person bound as surety or accommodation indorser for another,...
§ 87-5-3. Surety paying or tendering the debt - When any person who is bound as surety or indorser...
§ 87-5-5. Surety company may maintain action against defaulting principal - When any surety or guaranty company has executed any bond...
§ 87-5-7. Surety or indorser, when sued alone, must notify principal and make defense - A surety or indorser shall not suffer judgment or a...
§ 87-5-9. Surety paying a judgment - If a judgment or decree be rendered by any court...
§ 87-5-11. Bona fide purchasers and encumbrancers protected - If such judgment or decree as is referred to in...
§ 87-5-13. Execution against principal and sureties; how served - When execution shall issue on any judgment or decree rendered...
Chapter 7 - Improvements to Real Property
§ 87-7-3. Payment of contractors; penalty for late payment - All sums due contractors under all construction contracts, except public...
§ 87-7-5. Proportional payment of subcontractors; penalty for late payment - When a contractor receives any payment from the owner under...
Chapter 9 - General Provisions -