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Chancellors, Districts and Terms
§ 9-5-1. Chancellors; election, holding of court terms, terms of office, and residency - A chancellor shall be elected for and from each of...
§ 9-5-5. First district; composition - The First Chancery Court District is composed of the following...
§ 9-5-9. Second district; composition - The Second Chancery Court District is composed of the following...
§ 9-5-21. Sixth district; composition - The Sixth Chancery Court District is composed of the following...
§ 9-5-25. Seventh district; number and election of chancellors - [Until January 1, 2011, this section shall read as follows:]...
§ 9-5-25. Seventh district; number and election of chancellors - [From and after January 1, 2011, this section shall read...
§ 9-5-27. Eighth district; composition - The Eighth Chancery Court District is composed of the following...
§ 9-5-33. Ninth district; number and election of chancellors - There shall be three (3) chancellors for the Ninth Chancery...
§ 9-5-35. Tenth district; composition - The Tenth Chancery Court District is composed of the following...
§ 9-5-38. Eleventh district; number and election of chancellors - There shall be three (3) chancellors for the Eleventh Chancery...
§ 9-5-39. Twelfth district; composition - The Twelfth Chancery Court District is composed of the following...
§ 9-5-45. Fourteenth district; number and election of chancellors - There shall be three (3) chancellors for the Fourteenth Chancery...
§ 9-5-47. Fifteenth district; composition - The Fifteenth Chancery Court District is composed of the following...
§ 9-5-49. Sixteenth district; composition - The Sixteenth Chancery Court District is composed of the following...
§ 9-5-53. Eighteenth district; composition - The Eighteenth Chancery Court District is composed of the following...
§ 9-5-55. Nineteenth district; composition - The Nineteenth Chancery Court District is composed of the following...
§ 9-5-57. Twentieth district; composition - The Twentieth Chancery Court District shall be Rankin County.
§ 9-5-58. Twentieth district; number and election of chancellors - There shall be three (3) chancellors for the Twentieth Chancery...
Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority, Vacation Matters
§ 9-5-81. Jurisdiction of the chancery court, in general - The chancery court in addition to the full jurisdiction in...
§ 9-5-83. Court may determine all matters in estates administered - The court in which a will may have been admitted...
§ 9-5-85. Court may summon all persons and punish for contempt - The chancery court shall have power to issue a summons...
§ 9-5-87. Power to punish for violation of injunction - The chancery court, or the chancellor in vacation, or judge...
§ 9-5-89. Guardian ad litem; appointment and compensation; effect of failure to appoint - The court may appoint a guardian ad litem to any...
§ 9-5-93. Trial of causes in vacation; power to enter decree prior to adjournment of next succeeding term - Whenever the chancery court or chancellor has lawfully set any...
§ 9-5-95. Court or chancellor may extend time in vacation - The court or chancellor in vacation shall have power in...
§ 9-5-97. Additional powers of chancellor in vacation - In the matter of ordering, decreeing and confirming sales of...
§ 9-5-103. Bonds of receivers, assignees, executors may be reduced or cancelled, if excessive or for sufficient cause - Whenever it shall appear by petition to the chancery court,...
§ 9-5-105. Expense of chancellor in hearing vacation matter paid equally by parties - When any chancellor in this state shall, by agreement of...
Chancery Clerks
§ 9-5-131. Bond of clerk - The clerk of the chancery court, before he enters upon...
§ 9-5-133. How clerk of chancery court may appoint deputies - The clerk of the chancery court shall have power, with...
§ 9-5-137. Other duties of the clerk - It shall be the duty of the clerk to preserve...
§ 9-5-139. Chancery clerk's office at Biloxi - In Harrison County, a county with two judicial districts, it...
§ 9-5-141. Acts clerk may perform at any time - The clerk or his deputy may at any time receive...
§ 9-5-145. How proceedings before clerk to be conducted - In all applications and proceedings before the clerk in vacation...
§ 9-5-147. All acts of clerk subject to approval or disapproval - All acts, judgments, orders, or decrees made by the clerk...
§ 9-5-151. How minutes of proceedings before clerk preserved and approved - The minutes so kept of proceedings in vacation or in...
§ 9-5-153. How approval of clerk's minutes and orders shown - The approval by the court of minutes entered in vacation...
§ 9-5-155. Bonds examined by chancellor - The chancellor shall, at each term of the court, carefully...
§ 9-5-157. Register of sureties on bonds to be kept - The clerk of the chancery court shall either procure a...
§ 9-5-159. Abstract of certain decrees furnished circuit clerk - The clerk of the chancery court shall, within ten days...
§ 9-5-163. Custodian of certain records and papers - The clerk of the chancery court shall be the custodian...
§ 9-5-165. Removal and return of court files and documents in clerk's office - The clerk shall not suffer any paper filed to be...
§ 9-5-167. Newspaper subscribed for and preserved - The clerk of the chancery court shall subscribe to at...
§ 9-5-169. All records and papers subject to inspection - Except as otherwise provided in Section 25-61-11.2, all of the...
§ 9-5-173. Register of claims against estates - The clerk shall keep in his office a well-bound book,...
Dockets
§ 9-5-203. Matters testamentary, etc., to be docketed - The clerk shall place on the general docket all applications...
§ 9-5-205. Issue docket - The chancery clerk shall keep an issue docket in which...
§ 9-5-213. Motion docket and entries - The clerk shall also keep a motion docket in which...
§ 9-5-215. Loose leaf docket - Any chancellor in this state may, by an order made...
§ 9-5-217. Execution docket and entries therein - The clerk shall keep an execution docket in the manner...
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