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MS Code § 11-17-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 17 - Suits to Confirm Title or Interest and to Remove Clouds on Title|§ 11-17-19. Confirmation of title or interests granted by political subdivision

 Any person, firm or corporation which claims title to or a leasehold or other interest in any real property, other than sixteenth section school lands or lands granted in lieu thereof, under or by virtue of a sale, conveyance or lease of such property by any county, municipality, supervisor's district, or other political subdivision of the State of Mississippi, acting either separately or jointly, may proceed by sworn complaint in the chancery court of the county in which such real property, or some part thereof, is located, to have the title to or leasehold or other interest in such real property quieted and confirmed. Such action may be brought whether or not such person, firm or corporation be in possession of such real property, or whether he or it be threatened to be disturbed in such possession or not. In such complaint, the person, firm or corporation claiming such title or leasehold or other interest shall be the party plaintiff and there shall be made defendants thereto the county, municipality or other political subdivision which sold, conveyed or leased said property, the Attorney General of the state and the district attorney of the county in which said suit is filed. In any such suit, it shall not be necessary that the plaintiff therein deraign his title to said property.
MS Code § 11-17-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 17 - Suits to Confirm Title or Interest and to Remove Clouds on Title|§ 11-17-21. Proceedings in suit for confirmation of title granted by political subdivision; defaults

 All proceedings in said suit shall be governed by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure. However, no default judgment shall be entered against the defendants unless the court determines the truth of the averments after a hearing pursuant to the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.
MS Code § 11-17-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 17 - Suits to Confirm Title or Interest and to Remove Clouds on Title|§ 11-17-23. Confirmation of title or interest granted by political subdivision; decree; res judicata

 In all such proceedings the court shall find whether the sale, conveyance or lease of such real property was lawful and valid. Upon the hearing of such case, the chancery court shall enter a decree validating and confirming the complainant's title to or leasehold or other interest in such real property as against the defendants in said suit, unless it shall appear to the court and the court shall find that the title thereto or leasehold or other interest therein was not lawfully and validly acquired by virtue of the sale, conveyance or lease under which such complainant claims, in which latter case the chancery court shall enter a decree annulling and cancelling such sale, conveyance or lease, or such other decree as the court may find to be lawful, just and equitable in such case. When any sale, conveyance or lease of any such property shall be confirmed and validated under the provisions of Sections 11-17-19 through 11-17-27 by decree of the chancery court, such decree shall forever estop and preclude the defendants and all other parties from thereafter questioning the validity of the sale, conveyance or lease involved in such proceedings.
MS Code § 11-17-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 17 - Suits to Confirm Title or Interest and to Remove Clouds on Title|§ 11-17-25. Confirmation of title or interest granted by political subdivision; appeals

 Any of the parties to a confirmation suit filed under the provisions of Sections 11-17-19 through 11-17-27 may appeal from the decree of the chancery court in the manner and within the time provided by law, and such appeals shall be heard as are other cases of appeals from the decrees of the chancery court.
MS Code § 11-17-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 17 - Suits to Confirm Title or Interest and to Remove Clouds on Title|§ 11-17-27. Confirmation of title or interest granted by political subdivision; applicability of Sections 11-17-19 through 11-17-27

 Sections 11-17-19 through 11-17-27 shall be applicable to all sales, conveyances and leases of real property, other than sixteenth section school lands or lands granted in lieu thereof, made by any county, municipality, supervisor's district or other political subdivision of the State of Mississippi, acting either jointly or separately, to any person, firm or corporation, including, but not being limited to, sales, conveyances and leases made under the authority of Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51, any other statute of the State of Mississippi, whether same be general, special or local and private, and sales, conveyances and leases made under the general authority of counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions, whether same were authorized by a specific statute or not.
MS Code § 11-17-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 17 - Suits to Confirm Title or Interest and to Remove Clouds on Title|§ 11-17-29. Any other title may be confirmed

 The owner in possession of any land, or the owner thereof who may be out of possession, if there be no adverse occupancy thereof, may file a bill in the chancery court to have his title confirmed and quieted. The law for notice, process, proceedings, and practice, as provided for confirming and quieting tax titles shall apply, no matter by what tenure the complainant may hold. Unknown and nonresident parties may be made defendants as they are made defendants to proceedings to confirm tax titles. If on the final hearing of any such suit, the court shall be satisfied that the complainant is the real owner of the land, it shall so adjudge, and its decree shall be conclusive evidence of title as determined from the date of the decree as against all parties defendant.
MS Code § 11-17-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 17 - Suits to Confirm Title or Interest and to Remove Clouds on Title|§ 11-17-31. Removing clouds upon titles

 When a person not the rightful owner of any real estate, shall have any conveyance or other evidence of title thereto, or shall assert any claim, or pretend to have any right of title thereto, which may cast doubt, or suspicion on the title of the real owner, such real owner may file a bill in the chancery court to have such conveyance or other evidence or claim of title cancelled, and such cloud, doubt or suspicion removed from said title, whether such real owner be in possession or not, or be threatened to be disturbed in his possession or not, and whether the defendant be a resident of this state or not. Any person having the equitable title to land may, in like cases, file a bill to divest the legal title out of the person in whom the same may be vested, and to vest the same in the equitable owner. Any person holding or claiming under a tax title lands heretofore or hereafter sold for taxes may proceed hereunder in like manner and may include, as a defendant, any political subdivision of the state, having or asserting any evidence or claim of title adverse to such tax title.
MS Code § 11-17-34 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 17 - Suits to Confirm Title or Interest and to Remove Clouds on Title|§ 11-17-34. Disposition of mineral lease proceeds held by receiver

 Unless otherwise released by the court, the receiver appointed in Section 11-17-33 shall hold all net proceeds paid in connection with such lease for a period of ten (10) years from the date of the decree establishing the receivership. If, at the end of that period of ten (10) years, no valid claim has been made for such moneys and said mineral interests, all moneys and mineral interests held by the receiver shall immediately escheat to the state in the same manner as if the absent person had died intestate leaving no heirs capable of inheriting as set forth in Chapter 11, Title 89, Mississippi Code of 1972. Provided, however, any person who is not concluded as a party or privy by a decree in favor of the state in proceedings to establish an escheat, may recover of the state, by suit, the net proceeds derived from any lease and from the sale of such minerals and paid into the state treasury, if the party shall establish his right to such minerals and that the same had not properly escheated to the state; but the title of the purchaser of such minerals shall not be thereby disturbed.
MS Code § 11-17-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 17 - Suits to Confirm Title or Interest and to Remove Clouds on Title|§ 11-17-35. Title of complainant must be deraigned-and decrees, in certain cases, recorded as deeds

 In bills to confirm title to real estate, and to cancel and remove clouds therefrom, the complainant must set forth in plain and concise language the deraignment of his title. If title has passed out of the sovereign more than seventy-five (75) years prior to the filing of the bill, then the deraignment shall be sufficient if it show title out of the sovereign and a deraignment of title for not less than sixty (60) years prior to the filing of the bill. A mere statement therein that complainant is the real owner of the land shall be insufficient, unless good and valid reason be given why he does not deraign his title. In all such cases, final decrees in the complainant's favor shall be recorded in the record of deeds, and shall be indexed as if a conveyance of the land from the defendant or each of them, if more than one, to the complainant or complainants, if more than one.
MS Code § 11-17-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 17 - Suits to Confirm Title or Interest and to Remove Clouds on Title|§ 11-17-37. Decrees as to possession, rents, etc.

 In suits to try title, to cancel deeds and other clouds upon title, and to confirm title to real estate, the chancery court shall have jurisdiction to decree possession and to displace possession, to decree rents and compensation for improvements and taxes. In all cases where said courts heretofore exercised jurisdiction auxiliary to courts of common law, it may exercise such jurisdiction to grant the relief sought, although the legal remedy may not have been exhausted or the legal title established by a suit at law.
MS Code § 11-19-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-1. In what case the action lies

 A civil action seeking ejectment as relief may be maintained in all cases where the plaintiff is legally entitled to the possession of the land sued for and demanded.
MS Code § 11-19-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-3. Power of courts over proceedings

 The court in which an action of ejectment may be brought or be pending may exercise over the proceedings therein the like jurisdiction and control as heretofore exercised in the action of ejectment, so as to insure a trial of the title only, and of actual ouster when necessary, and for all other purposes for which such jurisdiction was heretofore exercised.
MS Code § 11-19-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-5. Who may be made defendants

 If the premises for which the action is brought be actually occupied by any person, such actual occupant shall be made a defendant in the suit; and all other persons claiming title or interest to or in the same may also, in all cases, be joined as defendants. If the premises be not occupied, the action shall be brought against some person exercising acts of ownership over the premises claimed, or claiming title thereto or some interest therein at the commencement of the suit.
MS Code § 11-19-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-9. Landlord notified and admitted to defend

 Every tenant sued in a civil action seeking ejectment as relief shall forthwith give notice thereof to his landlord, under penalty of three (3) years' rent of the premises, to be recovered by the landlord or his representatives in a civil action. The landlord of such tenant, or any other proper person, shall, by leave of the court or judge, be admitted to appear and defend the action in all cases where the same would have been allowed heretofore, and either separately or jointly with the tenant. Any person admitted to defend as landlord in respect of property whereof he is in possession only by his tenant, shall state in his answer that he defends as such landlord, and such person shall be allowed to set up any defense he has heretofore been allowed to set up, and no other. Any judgment in such action shall have the same effect for or against such person so admitted to defend as if he had been named in the complaint and regularly served with process.
MS Code § 11-19-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-11. Reversioner or remainderman admitted to defend

 If a tenant for life or lives be impleaded concerning the land holden, the person to whom the reversion or remainder belongs may come into court at any time before judgment, and shall be admitted to defend his right.
MS Code § 11-19-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-13. Default of tenant for life not to prejudice

 If a tenant for life or lives, when impleaded, make default or give up the tenement demanded, or if the judgment be given on such default or surrender, the person to whom the reversion or remainder belongs after the determination of the life estate, shall not be prejudiced or injured by such default, surrender, or judgment.
MS Code § 11-19-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-15. Declaration

 The consent rule, and all fictions heretofore used in a civil action seeking ejectment as relief, are abolished; and the action shall be commenced by filing a complaint in the name of the person claiming the premises in question, as plaintiff against the defendant. The complaint shall describe the premises with such certainty as will distinctly apprise the defendant of their description and situation, and so that from such description possession may be delivered. If the plaintiff claim only an undivided interest therein, it shall state such interest. If the plaintiff claim more than he is entitled to, he may, nevertheless, recover so much as he shall prove title to.
MS Code § 11-19-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-19. Answer and defense

 The defendants, or any of them, shall be allowed to answer or otherwise defend the action, either jointly or separately. The answer, if the defendant do not admit the plaintiff's title, shall be "not guilty," which shall be filed within the like time as required in personal actions; and under said answer the defendant may give in evidence any lawful defense to the action not inconsistent with the other provisions of this chapter. Any defendant may defend for a part only of the premises in question; and in such case the part shall be described in the answer with the same certainty required in the complaint.
MS Code § 11-19-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-21. Pleading amended as to description of premises

 If the premises be not described with sufficient certainty in the complaint or answer, the court or judge may order the pleading to be amended so as to contain a sufficient description. If either party fail to comply with such order, judgment may be entered as for want of a complaint or answer, according to the circumstances of the case.
MS Code § 11-19-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-23. Forms of proceedings

 Declarations, writs, and pleas in the form or to the effect of the precedents appended hereto, shall be good and sufficient for all purposes in proceedings under this chapter.
MS Code § 11-19-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-25. Form of declaration

 "The State of Mississippi In the circuit court term, County of A.D. "A B, plaintiff, claims the right to possession of a tract of land, situated in County, containing acres, more or less, and being more particularly described as follows: (here insert legal description of premises); and that the defendant wrongfully deprives him of the possession thereof, for which damage in the amount of Dollars are here demanded. "E F, Attorney for Plaintiff." If mesne profits be demanded, add to the above form the following: "And the plaintiff also demands of the defendant the sum of Dollars for the use and occupation of the said land by the defendant."   Click to view
MS Code § 11-19-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-53. Right to discover details of claim or title to premises

 After issue joined in ejectment, either party may discover the details of the other's claim or title to the premises in question, and the response thereto shall include a short abstract of such documentary evidences of title as the party may intend to give in evidence on the trial, and a clear and succinct statement of the substance of any and all lost or destroyed documents the contents of which he may expect to prove. If title be claimed by inheritance, or if claimed on any fact which rests in parol, the facts shall be stated. In case of claim by inheritance, if either party demand it, the other shall give the ages of the several persons to whom the land descended, and the date of the death of the person from whom they inherited the premises. If any document referred to in the response to such discovery request made by law be recorded, it shall also state where it is recorded, or, if not recorded, then it shall include copies of such as are in the possession of the party, with the names of the subscribing witnesses thereto, if any. The discovery response shall be served within the time and in the manner prescribed by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure and, in default thereof, evidence of such title shall not be given on the trial. In all cases, the evidence of title shall be confined to the matters contained in the discovery response.
MS Code § 11-19-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-55. Either party may have a survey made

 In case either party shall desire a survey to be made of the premises sued for in ejectment, he may cause the same to be made, after the institution of the suit, by applying to the clerk of the court in which the suit is brought to issue a commission for that purpose, directed to the county surveyor, or other surveyor, authorizing him to make a survey of the premises, and report the same, under oath, to the court at the next term. Such a survey shall not be made without first giving five days' notice to the opposite party at the time of making the same. The party at whose instance the survey was made shall pay the expenses thereof, but may recover the same as costs, in case he succeed in the action and the judgment be that the survey was necessary in deciding the issue.
MS Code § 11-19-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-57. Action not abated by death

 The death of a plaintiff or defendant in ejectment shall not cause the action to abate, but it may be continued after timely substitution of parties as prescribed by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.
MS Code § 11-19-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-81. When title of plaintiff has expired

 If it appear at the trial that the plaintiff or plaintiffs, or one (1) of them, was, at the commencement of the action, entitled to recover possession of the premises in question, or of some part thereof, but that his or their title has expired at the time of the trial, the plaintiff or plaintiffs so entitled shall, notwithstanding such expiration, have a verdict according to the fact that he had such right of recovery at the commencement of the action, and shall recover his costs of suit; but as to the premises claimed, the judgment shall be that the plaintiff be involuntarily dismissed.
MS Code § 11-19-85 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-85. Trial of action between cotenants

 In case the action be brought by some one of several persons entitled as joint tenants, tenants in common, or coparceners, any joint tenant, tenant in common, or coparcener defending the action, may give notice with his answer or other defense that he admits the right of the plaintiff to an undivided share of the property, stating what share, but denies any actual ouster of him from the property. Upon the trial of the issue, if it appear that the defendant is a joint tenant, tenant in common, or coparcener with the plaintiff, and actual ouster shall not be proved, then the plaintiff shall be involuntarily dismissed, with costs. But if it be proved either that the defendant is not a joint tenant, tenant in common, or coparcener, or that an actual ouster had taken place, then the jury shall so find by the verdict, and the plaintiff shall have judgment in accordance with the verdict for the recovery of possession and costs.
MS Code § 11-19-87 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-87. When a crop is growing on the land

 If the jury find for the plaintiff in an action of ejectment, and the defendant have a crop then planted and growing upon the premises in question, it shall assess a reasonable rent for the plaintiff to receive for the use of the premises, for such time as it may think necessary for the defendant to make and gather his crop. If the defendant enter into bond with security, to be approved by the court, or by the clerk in vacation, in a penalty of double the amount of rent so assessed, payable to the plaintiff, conditioned for the payment of the rent assessed at the expiration of the term fixed by the jury for the defendant to hold possession of the premises, then a writ of possession shall not issue upon the judgment in the action, until the expiration of the time so allowed by the jury. The bond shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the court, and, if forfeited, shall have the force and effect of a judgment, and execution may issue thereon against the principal and sureties as upon other judgments in the court.
MS Code § 11-19-89 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 19 - Ejectment|§ 11-19-89. Proceedings as to crop upon affirmance of judgment in Supreme Court

 If a judgment in favor of the plaintiff in an action of ejectment be affirmed by the Supreme Court, and the appellant have a crop then planted and growing upon the premises in question, and shall file with the clerk of the circuit court in which the judgment was recovered an affidavit of the fact, and shall undertake, in writing, with such sureties and such sum as the clerk may require, to pay to the opposite party the rent which may be adjudged to be paid for the use and occupation of said premises until the end of the current year, a writ of possession shall not issue until the end of the year, and the affidavit and security for rent shall be filed by the clerk among the papers in the case. The clerk may examine the parties and other persons on oath as to the value of such rent and the sufficiency of the sureties, and may require their statements to be written and signed by them.