Mississippi Code
Title 89 - Real and Personal Property

§ 89-1-25. Quitclaim deeds and disclaimers of title by school district boards of trustees, municipalities and boards of supervisors - In all cases where a board of trustees of any...

§ 89-1-27. Conveyances by masters, commissioners, sheriffs or other officers - Conveyances by masters, commissioners, sheriffs, and constables for lands sold...

§ 89-1-29. Spouse's role in conveying homestead; incompetent spouse; limited power of attorney in conveyance of homestead - A conveyance, mortgage, deed of trust or other incumbrance upon...

§ 89-1-33. Effect of word "warrant" in conveyance - The word "warrant" without restrictive words in a conveyance shall...

§ 89-1-35. Effect of words "warrant specially." - The words "warrant specially," in a conveyance, shall constitute a...

§ 89-1-37. Effect of a conveyance without warranty - A conveyance without any warranty shall operate to transfer the...

§ 89-1-39. Effect of quitclaim and release - A conveyance of quitclaim and release shall be sufficient to...

§ 89-1-41. Effect of words "grant, bargain, sell." - The words "grant, bargain, sell," shall operate as an express...

§ 89-1-43. Mortgages and trust estates; trust estates subject to execution - Estates of any kind holden or possessed in trust for...

§ 89-1-45. Mortgage for purchase money of land - Every mortgage given at the time of the purchase of...

§ 89-1-47. Deed not shown to be mortgage by parol evidence - A conveyance or other writing absolute on its face, where...

§ 89-1-51. Trustee may acknowledge satisfaction - The trustee in a deed of trust may acknowledge satisfaction...

§ 89-1-53. Mortgages and deeds of trust on land; to be referred to in deed of conveyance under foreclosure proceedings - If there shall be a foreclosure and sale under any...

§ 89-1-55. How lands sold under mortgages and deeds in trust - All lands comprising a single tract, and wholly described by...

§ 89-1-57. Deed of trust or mortgage; how sale made when terms not specified - If a deed of trust or mortgage, with a power...

§ 89-1-59. Accelerated debt may be reinstated by payment of all default before sale - Where there is a series of notes or installment payments...

§ 89-1-61. Forms for conveyances - A conveyance of land may be in the following form,...

§ 89-1-63. Deed of trust or mortgage; power of sale; relationship of trustee to other party to deed of trust; beneficiary may purchase at sale made under power of sale; appointment or substitution of trustee by beneficiary - Click to view "In trust to secure (here state what...

§ 89-1-65. Sheriff's conveyance - A conveyance of land sold by a sheriff under execution...

§ 89-1-67. Conveyance by administrator, executor, guardian, master, or commissioner - A conveyance by an administrator, executor, guardian, master, or commissioner,...

Relief From Inequitable Mortgage Foreclosures, Execution Sales and the Like After Declared Emergency or Disaster

§ 89-1-301. Preliminary injunction against foreclosure proceedings; application to dissolve - The provisions of Sections 89-1-301 through 89-1-329 shall apply only...

§ 89-1-303. Hearing; determination of carrying charge payments - Suits for the foreclosure of mortgages and deeds of trust...

§ 89-1-305. Effect of default; explanation and remedy; revocation of extension on final order of sale due to changed circumstances - If the mortgagor or owner of the mortgaged premises, or...

§ 89-1-307. Reference to master, farm debt adjustment committee or similar agency - At any hearing, whether in termtime or in vacation, the...

§ 89-1-309. Suspension of statute of limitations - The statutes of limitation which would otherwise apply to any...

§ 89-1-311. Application to levies and advertisements for sale - The provisions of Sections 89-1-301 through 89-1-329 shall apply to...

§ 89-1-313. Auxiliary jurisdiction of court - The court shall have jurisdiction to postpone the enforcement of...

§ 89-1-315. Approval of compromise settlements or compositions of mortgage indebtedness - In case the parties to any such foreclosure action shall...

§ 89-1-317. Agreements as to interest or finance charges; right to prepay without penalty - In any modification or refinancing of a debt secured by...

§ 89-1-319. Suspension of inconsistent laws; application to renewed or extended mortgages - Every law and all the provisions thereof now in force...

§ 89-1-321. Construction of terms - The words "mortgagor," "mortgagee," "judgment creditor," "judgment debtor" and "purchaser,"...

§ 89-1-323. Exclusion of mortgages held by United States and mortgages securing payment of public debts or funds - The provisions of Sections 89-1-301 through 89-1-329 shall not apply...

§ 89-1-325. Postponement or extension shall not substantially diminish value of contract or obligation - No postponement or extension shall be ordered under conditions which,...

§ 89-1-327. Provisions are severable - The provisions of Sections 89-1-301 through 89-1-329 are severable, and...

§ 89-1-329. Expiration of relief - Except for the cases pending in court, the relief provided...

Real Estate Transfer Disclosure Requirements

§ 89-1-503. Delivery of written statement required; indication of compliance; right of transferee to terminate for late delivery - The transferor of any real property subject to Sections 89-1-501...

§ 89-1-507. Approximation of certain information required to be disclosed; information subsequently rendered inaccurate - If information disclosed in accordance with Sections 89-1-501 through 89-1-523...

§ 89-1-509. Form of seller's disclosure statement - The disclosures required by Sections 89-1-501 through 89-1-523 pertaining to...

§ 89-1-511. Disclosures to be made in good faith - Each disclosure required by Sections 89-1-501 through 89-1-523 and each...

§ 89-1-513. Provisions not exhaustive of items to be disclosed - The specification of items for disclosure in Sections 89-1-501 through...

§ 89-1-515. Amendment of disclosure - Any disclosure made pursuant to Sections 89-1-501 through 89-1-523 may...

§ 89-1-517. Delivery of disclosure - Delivery of disclosure required by Sections 89-1-501 through 89-1-523 shall...

§ 89-1-519. Agent; extent of agency - Any person or entity, other than a duly licensed real...

§ 89-1-523. Noncompliance with disclosure requirements not to invalidate transfer; liability for actual damages - No transfer subject to Sections 89-1-501 through 89-1-523 shall be...

§ 89-1-525. Enforcement by Mississippi Real Estate Commission - The Mississippi Real Estate Commission is authorized to enforce the...

§ 89-1-527. Failure to disclose nonmaterial fact regarding property as site of death or felony crime, as site of act or occurrence having no effect on physical condition of property, or as being owned or occupied by persons affected or exposed to cer... - does not constitute a material fact that must be disclosed...

Chapter 2 - Liability of Recreational Landowners

Article 1 - Outdoor Recreational Land

§ 89-2-1. Declaration of purpose; effect of opening property for outdoor recreational purposes - The purpose of this article is to encourage persons to...

§ 89-2-3. Definitions - The term "outdoor recreational purposes" as used in this article...

§ 89-2-5. Certain liability not limited - This article does not relieve any person of liability which...

§ 89-2-7. Application of article - The provisions of this article shall not apply if any...

Article 3 - Limitation of Liability

§ 89-2-21. Definitions - For the purposes of this article, the following words shall...

§ 89-2-23. Landowner's duty of care with respect to recreational users of land - Except as provided for in Section 89-2-27, a landowner: (a)...

§ 89-2-25. Effect of landowner's permission to use land - Any landowner who gives permission to another person to hunt,...

§ 89-2-27. Exceptions to limitation of liability - This article shall not limit any liability which otherwise exists...

Chapter 3 - Acknowledgments

§ 89-3-3. Acknowledgment and proof - Every conveyance, contract or agreement proper to be recorded, may...

§ 89-3-5. Acknowledgments before commissioned officers of United States armed forces - In all cases where a conveyance, contract, agreement or other...

§ 89-3-7. Forms of acknowledgment - The following forms of acknowledgment may be used in the...

§ 89-3-9. Acknowledgment or proof in another state - If the party who shall execute any conveyance of lands...

§ 89-3-11. Acknowledgment or proof in another state; construction and application as to prior acknowledgments - In the construction of this section and Section 89-3-9, the...

§ 89-3-13. Acknowledgment or proof in foreign country - If the party who shall execute any conveyance of lands...

§ 89-3-15. Grantor and witness dead or absent, how proved - If the grantor and witness or witnesses of any instrument...

Chapter 5 - Recording of Instruments

Article 1 - General Provisions

§ 89-5-1. Recording instruments; conveyances, acknowledgment, priority - Except as provided by Sections 89-5-101 through 89-5-113, a conveyance...

§ 89-5-3. Conveyances, mortgages; void if not lodged for record - Except as provided by Sections 89-5-101 through 89-5-113, all bargains...

§ 89-5-5. Priority of all instruments, and notice thereof controlled by date of filing for record; take effect, when - Every conveyance, covenant, agreement, bond, mortgage, and deed of trust...

§ 89-5-7. Written contracts in relation to land recordable - Every title-bond or other written contract in relation to land...

§ 89-5-9. Copies of certain records may be recorded - A copy of the record of any instrument of writing...

§ 89-5-11. Patents issued by United States or this state recordable - All patents issued in the name of the United States...

§ 89-5-15. Transfer of record; debt to be noted on record - Except as provided in Section 89-5-37, Mississippi Code of 1972,...

§ 89-5-17. Assignments of indebtedness to be marked on record - Except as provided in Section 89-5-37, all assignments in whole...

§ 89-5-19. When a lien appears by the record to be barred, it ceases - Where the remedy to enforce any mortgage, deed of trust,...

§ 89-5-23. Oil, gas, and mineral leases; cancellation of record upon expiration - The chancery clerk shall be allowed a fee of One...

§ 89-5-27. Receipt for instruments delivered to chancery clerk for recording - The clerk of the chancery court, or his deputy, shall...

§ 89-5-29. Mortgages and deeds of trust on land; how recorded - Except as hereinafter provided, all mortgages and deeds of trust...

§ 89-5-35. How certain conveyances indexed - Every conveyance by a sheriff, constable, marshal, master, commissioner, executor,...

§ 89-5-37. Name of beneficiary must be disclosed in mortgage or deed of trust to be recorded; exception - The clerk of the chancery court, or his deputy, shall...

§ 89-5-39. Books of record not to be removed - A book of record of conveyances shall not be removed...

§ 89-5-41. Records in counties divided into two districts - Where it is not now so provided by law, in...

§ 89-5-43. Penalty on clerk for failure of duty - Any clerk who shall refuse or fail to perform any...

§ 89-5-45. Substitution of trustee must appear of record; general substitution allowed for certain beneficiaries - Sales of land made under deeds of trust by substituted...

Article 3 - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act

§ 89-5-101. Short title - This article may be cited as the Uniform Real Property...

§ 89-5-103. Definitions - In this article:

§ 89-5-105. Validity of electronic documents - If a law requires, as a condition for recording, that...

§ 89-5-107. Recording of documents - In this section, "paper document" means a document that is...

§ 89-5-109. Administration and standards - The Mississippi Electronic Recording Commission consisting of eleven (11) members...

§ 89-5-111. Uniformity of application and construction - In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration must be...

§ 89-5-113. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act - This article modifies, limits, and supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures...

Chapter 6 - Mississippi Plane Coordinate System

§ 89-6-3. Plane coordinate values - The plane coordinate values for a point on the earth's...

§ 89-6-5. Definitions applicable to Mississippi Coordinate System of 1927 - For purposes of more precisely defining the Mississippi Coordinate System...

§ 89-6-7. Definitions applicable to Mississippi Coordinate System of 1983 - For purposes of more precisely defining the Mississippi Coordinate System...

§ 89-6-9. Explanation of terms - The use of the term "Mississippi Coordinate System of 1927"...

§ 89-6-11. Recording coordinates; requirements for recognition - No coordinates based on either Mississippi coordinate system, purporting to...

§ 89-6-13. Use of system of plane coordinates to describe location of point within state - For purposes of describing the location of any point in...

§ 89-6-15. Effective date for usage of systems - The Mississippi Coordinate System of 1927 shall not be used...

§ 89-6-17. Conversion of distances or coordinates between English and metric unit - Any conversion of distances or coordinates between the English and...

§ 89-6-19. Use of metes and bounds descriptions or lot and block descriptions - No provision of this chapter shall prohibit or preclude the...

Chapter 7 - Landlord and Tenant

§ 89-7-1. Goods not to be removed until rent paid - No goods or chattels, lying or being in or upon...

§ 89-7-3. Tenant not bound to pay rent for, or to restore, buildings destroyed; exception - A tenant shall not be bound to pay rent for...

§ 89-7-5. Action for use and occupation where there is no contract - Where there is no contract, or where the agreement is...

§ 89-7-7. Remedy by action for rent in arrear - A person having rent in arrear or due upon any...

§ 89-7-9. Death of tenant for life; apportionment of rent - When a tenant for life who shall have demised lands,...

§ 89-7-11. Rent assets in hands of personal representative - If a person lease his land and die, the rent...

§ 89-7-13. Executor or administrator may sue or distrain - The executor or administrator of a person to whom rent...

§ 89-7-15. Rights of assignees of lessor - The grantees or assignees, and their heirs, personal representatives and...

§ 89-7-17. Grants of rents, good without attornment - Grants of rents or reversions or remainders shall be good...

§ 89-7-19. Attornment of tenant to stranger void; exception - The attornment of a tenant to a stranger shall be...

§ 89-7-21. Rights of lessees against assignees of lessor - All lessees of lands for a term of years, life...

§ 89-7-23. Notice to terminate tenancy - Notice to quit shall be necessary only where the term...

§ 89-7-25. Tenant holding after notice liable for double rent - When a tenant, being lawfully notified by his landlord, shall...

§ 89-7-27. Proceedings against tenant holding over - A tenant or lessee at will or at sufferance, or...

§ 89-7-29. Affidavit to remove - The landlord or lessor, his legal representatives, agents, or assigns,...

§ 89-7-33. Service of summons - Such summons shall be served as a summons is served...

§ 89-7-37. Defense may be made - The person in possession of such premises, or any person...

§ 89-7-39. Continuances, subpoenas - The court may, at the request of either party, adjourn...

§ 89-7-43. Judgment for defendant - If the decision be in favor of the tenant, he...

§ 89-7-45. When warrant for removal may issue in cases of nonpayment of rent - If a judgment of eviction is founded solely upon the...

§ 89-7-47. Record, appeals - The magistrate before whom proceedings shall be had against a...

§ 89-7-49. Proceedings when tenant deserts premises - If a tenant of lands, being in arrear for rent,...

§ 89-7-53. Lien for live stock, implements and vehicles - A landlord shall have, for one (1) year, a lien...

§ 89-7-55. Attachment for rent and supplies; who entitled to and for what - An attachment or distress may be sued out by the...

§ 89-7-57. How obtained - To obtain the attachment or distress, the party entitled thereto,...

§ 89-7-59. Before whom complaint made - Such complaint and bond may be made before any justice...

§ 89-7-61. Writ - When the complaint has been made and bond given and...

§ 89-7-63. Form of affidavit - The affidavit for an attachment for rent and supplies, or...

§ 89-7-65. Form of bond - The bond for an attachment for rent or supplies may...

§ 89-7-67. Form of the writ - The writ of attachment for rent and supplies, or either,...

§ 89-7-69. Goods sold if not replevied - The officer making a distress or seizure shall give notice...

§ 89-7-71. Form of bond for payment of rent - The bond to be taken by the officer for the...

§ 89-7-73. Bond delivered to lessor, and proceedings thereon - The bond taken for the payment of rent or supplies...

§ 89-7-75. Remedy when claim not due in certain cases - When any landlord or lessor shall have just cause to...

§ 89-7-77. Goods removed before debt due, distrained - When any tenant shall have actually removed his effects, other...

§ 89-7-79. Goods removed, seized within thirty days - If any tenant shall at any time convey or carry...

§ 89-7-81. Distress may be made after termination of lease - Any person, or his executor, administrator, or assigns having rent...

§ 89-7-83. Sale of goods stopped without bond - If the tenant shall make affidavit, before the officer holding...

§ 89-7-85. Distress to be reasonable, and property seized not to be removed from county - It shall not be lawful for any officer who may...

§ 89-7-87. Irregularities not to affect distress - When any distress or seizure shall be made for rent...

§ 89-7-89. How goods replevied - The tenant, his executor or administrator, may replevy the agricultural...

§ 89-7-91. Summons or publication for party distraining - In case of failure to summon in the first instance...

§ 89-7-93. Form of replevin-bond - The tenant's replevin-bond, or that of a claimant, may be...

§ 89-7-95. Party replevying to propound claim - By the first day of the next term of the...

§ 89-7-97. Form of declaration - The declaration in replevin in such case may be substantially...

§ 89-7-99. Pleas to the declaration - The only pleas to a declaration in replevin shall be...

§ 89-7-101. The avowry - The avowry shall be substantially to the following effect, to...

§ 89-7-103. The replication - If the avowry be for rent and supplies, or either,...

§ 89-7-105. Replication in case rent not due - If the avowry be a claim for rent or supplies,...

§ 89-7-107. Replevin; when triable, and judgment upon default - Suits by the tenant or a third person replevying the...

§ 89-7-109. Suit revived in case of death of party - If either party to such replevin or other action growing...

§ 89-7-111. Judgment if trial results against lessor - If the trial of suit result in favor of the...

§ 89-7-113. Papers transferred, if returned to wrong court - If the papers, in case of a replevin of property,...

§ 89-7-115. Tenant's remedy against landlord - If any distress or seizure and sale be made under...

§ 89-7-117. Property of strangers not liable - Property, except agricultural products on which there is a lien...

§ 89-7-119. Replevin of property by strangers - When any person other than the tenant shall claim to...

§ 89-7-121. Form of affidavit by third person - The affidavit by a third person claiming property distrained or...

§ 89-7-123. Proceedings to be as in replevin by tenant - The affidavit may be made before the officer having the...

§ 89-7-125. Burden of proof - On the trial of the issue between the landlord and...

Chapter 8 - Residential Landlord and Tenant Act

§ 89-8-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 89-8-5. Waiver of rights prohibited; provisions prohibited in rental agreement - In any agreement, oral or written, for the rental of...

§ 89-8-9. Obligation to act in good faith - Every duty under this chapter and every act which must...

§ 89-8-17. Rights of landlord after expiration of rental agreement - Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 89-8-13, the landlord may, at...

§ 89-8-25. Duties of tenant - A tenant shall: Keep that part of the premises that...

§ 89-8-27. Housing authorities authorized to contract with tenant management organizations; authority to sell public housing units to tenant management organizations - Any county, municipality, regional housing authority or local housing authority...

Chapter 9 - Condominiums

§ 89-9-1. Citation of chapter - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 89-9-3. Purpose of chapter - The purpose of this chapter is to give statutory recognition...

§ 89-9-5. Definitions - For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and...

§ 89-9-7. Condominium constitutes real property - A condominium is an estate in real property consisting of...

§ 89-9-9. Recordation of plan; amendment or revocation - The provisions of this chapter shall apply to property divided...

§ 89-9-11. Conveyance of unit or apartment, etc., which is part of unit presumed to convey entire condominium - Unless otherwise expressly stated therein, any transfer or conveyance of...

§ 89-9-13. Incidents of condominium grant - Unless otherwise expressly provided in the deeds, declaration of restrictions...

§ 89-9-15. Partition of common areas or of tenancy in common in condominium - Except as provided in Section 89-9-35, the common areas shall...

§ 89-9-17. Recording, enforcement and provisions of declaration of restrictions - The owner of a project shall, prior to the conveyance...

§ 89-9-19. Restrictions on sales and leases of units in project; first refusal of management not mandatory - The restrictions and covenants authorized by Section 89-9-17 may prescribe...

§ 89-9-21. Liability of owner for assessment upon condominium; lien on assessed condominium; recording, priority, enforcement, etc., of lien - A reasonable assessment upon any condominium made in accordance with...

§ 89-9-23. Lien for labor performed or services or materials furnished - No labor performed or services or materials furnished with the...

§ 89-9-25. Acquisition, etc., of personal property by management body for benefit of condominium owners; transfer of beneficial interest - Unless otherwise provided by a declaration of restrictions under Section...

§ 89-9-27. Construction of deed, declaration, or plan for condominium project - Any deed, declaration, or plan for a condominium project shall...

§ 89-9-29. Liabilities of unit owners - A. The liability of the owner of a unit for...

§ 89-9-33. Construction of local zoning ordinances - Unless a contrary intent is clearly expressed, local zoning ordinances...

§ 89-9-35. Action for partition of condominium project by sale thereof - Where several persons own condominiums, as defined in the Mississippi...

§ 89-9-37. Action for partition of condominium project by sale; venue; powers of court; sale - Such action for partition by sale shall be brought in...

Chapter 11 - Escheats

§ 89-11-1. When property shall escheat - If any person die intestate, seized of or holding, either...

§ 89-11-3. County administrator or sheriff is escheator; his duty, and duty of the assessor - The county administrator, if there be one, and, if none,...

§ 89-11-5. Proceedings to establish escheats - In all cases when property may have escheated to the...

§ 89-11-7. What persons summoned; publication made - On the filing of the bill, the clerk shall issue...

§ 89-11-9. A claimant not a party may answer - Any person who claims an estate or interest in property...

§ 89-11-11. Proceedings in court - The proceedings shall be conducted as other suits in the...

§ 89-11-13. Persons in possession liable for rent or hire of escheated property - The person in possession of escheated property shall be liable...

§ 89-11-15. Reports by escheator - On the establishment of any escheat of land, the escheator...

§ 89-11-17. Sale of escheated personalty; payment of debts - The court which decrees any escheat thereof shall retain jurisdiction...

§ 89-11-19. How real estate subjected to payments of debts - If the personal property of a deceased owner of escheated...

§ 89-11-21. Where escheated land is recovered from the purchaser - If escheated land be recovered from the purchaser at the...

§ 89-11-23. Proceeds of personal property reclaimed - Any person who is not concluded as a party or...

§ 89-11-25. Proceedings, where had - Proceedings to recover real property or the proceeds of personalty...

§ 89-11-27. Costs shall be allowed as in other cases - In case the property be not escheated, the costs incurred...

§ 89-11-29. Institution of escheat proceedings - The land commissioner shall have the power to discharge all...

§ 89-11-31. Sale of severed minerals which escheat to the state - Any severed minerals which escheat to the state under the...

Chapter 12 - Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act

§ 89-12-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 89-12-3. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...

§ 89-12-9. Presumed abandonment of funds held or owing by utility - Subject to the provisions of Section 89-12-17 of this chapter,...

§ 89-12-13. Presumed abandonment of intangible personal property held by fiduciary - Subject to the provisions of Section 89-12-17, any intangible personal...

§ 89-12-15. Presumed abandonment of intangible personal property held in ordinary course of holder's business - All intangible personal property not otherwise covered by the provisions...

§ 89-12-17. Additional conditions for presumption of abandonment of intangible personal property - Unless otherwise provided by statute of this state, intangible personal...

§ 89-12-19. Additional conditions for presumption of abandonment of sum payable on money order, traveler's check and the like - Any sum payable on a money order, traveler's check, or...

§ 89-12-33. Owner entitled to further income or increments - When property other than money is paid or delivered to...

§ 89-12-35. Effect of expiration of period of limitation - The expiration of any period of time specified by statute...

§ 89-12-41. Judicial review of action of treasurer upon claim - Any person aggrieved by a decision of the treasurer or...

§ 89-12-43. Treasurer may decline to receive property presumed abandoned - The treasurer, after receiving reports of property deemed abandoned pursuant...

§ 89-12-49. Rules and regulations - The treasurer is hereby authorized to adopt necessary rules and...

§ 89-12-53. Chapter inapplicable to property of minor or incompetent - The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any...

§ 89-12-55. Uniformity of interpretation - This chapter shall be so construed as to effectuate its...

§ 89-12-57. Provisions of chapter supplemental to Section 21-39-21 - This chapter shall not be construed as repealing the provisions...

Chapter 13 - Party Fences

§ 89-13-1. Adjoining owners to contribute - Persons owning adjoining land or lots, or being lessees thereof...

§ 89-13-3. Enforcement of contribution - If any person, being requested to do so, will not...

§ 89-13-5. Enforcement of contribution; notice and proceedings - The opposite party shall have five (5) days' notice of...

§ 89-13-7. Enforcement of contribution; action for amount assessed - The party may maintain an action for the amount assessed...

§ 89-13-9. Enforcement of contribution; costs - The freeholders each shall receive One Dollar and Fifty Cents...

§ 89-13-11. Contribution where fence already built - In case any party fence has been already built, and...

§ 89-13-13. Contribution to keep fence in repair - Each proprietor of land or lots separated by a party...

§ 89-13-15. Ownership of party fence; fence not to be removed - A party fence will be owned jointly by the respective...

§ 89-13-17. Departure from line - When, from natural obstacles, it shall be impracticable to erect...

§ 89-13-19. Removal and abandonment of party fence - In case a joint-owner of a party fence shall desire...

§ 89-13-21. Sale of land; lessee or owner to contribute - In case of the sale of the premises to another...

§ 89-13-23. Fence removed if not paid for, and adopted by paying proportion of value - The person who built the party fence may remove it...

Chapter 15 - Party Walls

§ 89-15-1. Parol agreement concerning, binding - Any agreement for erecting walls which parties may make who...

§ 89-15-3. How wall may become a party wall - If the owner of any lot shall build a substantial...

§ 89-15-5. Wall not to be used until paid for; how sum ascertained - A person shall not be at liberty to join or...

§ 89-15-7. Exceptions to appraisers - If either party present to such mayor or police justice...

§ 89-15-9. Either party may appeal; final record - The officer so appointing the appraisers shall make and preserve...

§ 89-15-11. Party wall not to be removed or impaired in value - Any party wall which has been paid for, and is...

Chapter 17 - Salvage

§ 89-17-1. Abandoned logs, boats, etc., salvaged - Any saw logs, sawn or hewn timber, lumber, boat, building,...

§ 89-17-3. Replevin by owner; bond; lien for salvage - Any person claiming to be the owner of such property...

§ 89-17-5. Prima facie abandonment - In any suit brought by one claiming to be the...

§ 89-17-7. Jurisdiction limited - The following sections, and not the foregoing, shall apply to...

§ 89-17-9. How claims for salvage service rendered shall be filed and prosecuted - Whenever any person shall desire to claim compensation for any...

§ 89-17-11. Clerk to issue summons - Upon filing such petition the clerk shall issue a summons...

§ 89-17-13. How notice given where parties are nonresidents of state - In suits against persons named in the petition, as defendants...

§ 89-17-15. Procedure on return of writ; defendant to plead to petition in case of contest - At the return of the process, in case the defendant...

§ 89-17-17. Sheriff to advertise property for sale; proceeds held for result of suit - Immediately upon the delivery to the sheriff of the property...

§ 89-17-19. Failure of defendant to appear at return term; funds condemned to satisfy judgment - In case the defendant shall not appear at the return...

§ 89-17-21. Jurisdiction of justice courts; time for trial; notice to parties - Justice courts shall have jurisdiction of all cases provided for...

§ 89-17-23. Person claiming property admitted to defend - On the return of the summons before a justice of...

§ 89-17-25. Penalty for converting derelict property to own use - If any person shall convert to his own use, sell...

§ 89-17-27. Unlawful to purchase derelict property from finder thereof - If any person shall purchase, or otherwise acquire, except at...

Chapter 19 - Mississippi Conservation Easements

§ 89-19-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known as the "Mississippi Conservation Easement...

§ 89-19-3. Definitions - For purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have...

§ 89-19-9. Validity of easements not affected by certain conditions - A conservation easement shall be valid despite the following: It...

§ 89-19-11. Capital improvements on property upon which easements have been granted - With the exception of "Mississippi Landmarks," as defined by the...

§ 89-19-15. Recorded easements to be filed with Attorney General and Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks - Whenever any instrument conveying a conservation easement is recorded after...

Chapter 21 - Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act

§ 89-21-1. Short title - This chapter may be cited as the "Uniform Disclaimer of...

§ 89-21-3. Right to disclaim interest in property - A person, or the representative of a person, to whom...

§ 89-21-7. Form of disclaimer - The disclaimer must (a) describe the property or interest disclaimed,...

§ 89-21-11. Waiver and bar - The right to disclaim property or an interest therein is...

§ 89-21-13. Remedy not exclusive - This chapter does not abridge the right of person to...

§ 89-21-15. Application - An interest in property that exists on July 1, 1994,...

§ 89-21-17. Uniformity of application and construction - This chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its...

Chapter 23 - Mississippi Uniform Environmental Covenants Act

§ 89-23-1. Short title - This chapter may be cited as the Mississippi Uniform Environmental...

§ 89-23-3. Definitions - In this chapter: "Commission" means the Mississippi Commission on Environmental...

§ 89-23-5. Holder defined; rights and obligations; subordination of rights - Any person, including a person that owns an interest in...

§ 89-23-7. Contents of environmental covenant - An environmental covenant must: In addition to the information required...

§ 89-23-9. Validity of environmental covenant; effect on other instruments - An environmental covenant that complies with this chapter runs with...

§ 89-23-11. Relation of this chapter to other land-use laws - This chapter does not authorize a use of real property...

§ 89-23-13. Notice requirement; penalty for failure to provide notice - A copy of an environmental covenant shall be provided by...

§ 89-23-15. Recording of environmental covenant, amendment, and termination - An environmental covenant and any amendment or termination of the...

§ 89-23-17. Duration of environmental covenants - An environmental covenant is perpetual unless it is: The commission...

§ 89-23-19. Amendment or termination of environmental covenant; consent - An environmental covenant may be amended or terminated by consent...

§ 89-23-21. Violation of environmental covenant; injunctive relief - A civil action for injunctive or other equitable relief for...

§ 89-23-23. Application and construction of chapter - In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration must be...

§ 89-23-25. Relation of chapter to federal law - This chapter modifies, limits, or supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures...

§ 89-23-27. Severability - If any provision of this chapter or its application to...

Chapter 25 - Mississippi Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities

§ 89-25-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be referred to...

§ 89-25-3. Statutory rule against perpetuities - that language is inoperative to the extent that it produces...

§ 89-25-7. Reformation - Upon petition of an interested person, a court shall reform...

§ 89-25-9. Exclusions from the statutory rule against perpetuities - Section 89-25-3 shall not apply to: A nonvested property interest...

§ 89-25-13. Uniformity - This chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its...

§ 89-25-15. Supersession - This chapter supersedes the rule of the common law known...

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Mississippi Code Title 89 - Real and Personal Property

Mississippi Code
Title 89 - Real and Personal Property