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MS Code § 13-7-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 7 - State Grand Jury Act|§ 13-7-13. Clerk of state grand jury; compensation

 The impaneling judge shall appoint a circuit clerk who shall serve as the clerk of the state grand jury. The compensation of the state grand jury clerk shall be paid out of any available funds appropriated for that purpose.
MS Code § 13-7-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 7 - State Grand Jury Act|§ 13-7-17. Foreman and deputy foreman of grand jury

 The impaneling judge shall appoint one (1) of the jurors to be a foreman and another to be deputy foreman. During the absence of the foreman, the deputy foreman shall act as foreman. The foreman and deputy foreman shall be sworn pursuant to Section 13-5-45.
MS Code § 13-7-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 7 - State Grand Jury Act|§ 13-7-19. Challenging the grand jury

 After the state grand jurors shall have been sworn and impaneled, no objections shall be raised by plea or otherwise, to the state grand jury, but the impaneling of the state grand jury shall be conclusive evidence of its competency and qualifications. However, any party interested may challenge the jury, except to the array, for fraud.
MS Code § 13-7-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 7 - State Grand Jury Act|§ 13-7-21. Subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum; contempt

 The clerk of the state grand jury, upon request of the Attorney General or his designee, shall issue subpoenas, or subpoenas duces tecum to compel individuals, documents or other materials to be brought from anywhere in the state or another state to a state grand jury. In addition, a state grand jury may proceed in the same manner as is provided for by law in relation to the issuance of subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum; however, the provisions of such law shall not be considered a limitation upon this section, but shall be supplemental thereto. The subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum may be for investigative purposes and for the retention of documents or other materials so subpoenaed for proper criminal proceedings. Any investigator employed by the Attorney General or any law enforcement officer with appropriate jurisdiction is empowered to serve such subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum and receive such documents and other materials for return to a state grand jury. Any person violating a subpoena or subpoena duces tecum issued pursuant to this chapter, or who fails to fully answer all questions put to him before proceedings of the state grand jury whenever the response thereto is not privileged or otherwise protected by law, including the granting of immunity as authorized by this chapter, or any other law, may be punished by the impaneling judge for contempt provided the response is not privileged or otherwise protected by law. The Attorney General or his designee may petition the impaneling judge to compel compliance by the person alleged to have committed the violation or who has failed to answer. If the impaneling judge considers compliance is warranted, he may order compliance and may punish the individual for contempt, as provided in Section 9-1-17, where the compliance does not occur. The clerk of the state grand jury may also issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum to compel individuals, documents or other materials to be brought from anywhere in the state to the trial of any indictment returned by a state grand jury or the trial of any civil forfeiture action arising out of an investigation conducted by a state grand jury.
MS Code § 13-7-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 7 - State Grand Jury Act|§ 13-7-23. Amending petition and order establishing and impaneling state grand jury

 Once a state grand jury has entered into a term, the petition and order establishing and impaneling the state grand jury may be amended as often as necessary and appropriate so as to expand the areas of inquiry authorized by the order or to add additional areas of inquiry thereto, consistent with the provisions of this chapter. The procedures for amending this authority are the same as those for filing the original petition and order.
MS Code § 13-7-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 7 - State Grand Jury Act|§ 13-7-25. Recording of proceedings of state grand jury; defendants right to review record; custody of records

 A court reporter shall record either stenographically or by use of an electronic recording device, all state grand jury proceedings except when the state grand jury is deliberating or voting. Subject to the limitations of Section 13-7-29 and any rule of court, a defendant has the right to review and to reproduce the stenographically or electronically recorded materials. Transcripts of the recorded testimony or proceedings must be made when requested by the Attorney General or his designee. An unintentional failure of any recording to reproduce all or any portion of the testimony or proceeding shall not affect the validity of the prosecution. The recording or reporter's notes or any transcript prepared therefrom and all books, papers, records and correspondence produced before the state grand jury shall remain in the custody and control of the Attorney General or his designee unless otherwise ordered by the court in a particular case.
MS Code § 13-7-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 7 - State Grand Jury Act|§ 13-7-27. Administering oath to witnesses

 The foreman shall administer an oath or affirmation in the manner prescribed by law to any witness who testifies before a state grand jury.
MS Code § 13-7-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 7 - State Grand Jury Act|§ 13-7-31. Authority of impaneling judge to hear matters arising from grand jury proceedings

 Except for the prosecution of cases arising from indictments issued by the state grand jury, the impaneling judge has jurisdiction to hear all matters arising from the proceedings of a state grand jury, including, but not limited to, matters related to the impanelment or removal of state grand jurors, the quashing of subpoenas and the punishment for contempt.
MS Code § 13-7-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 7 - State Grand Jury Act|§ 13-7-33. Attorney general or designee to coordinate scheduling activities

 The Attorney General or his designee shall coordinate the scheduling of activities of any state grand jury.
MS Code § 13-7-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 7 - State Grand Jury Act|§ 13-7-35. Requirements for "True Bill" of indictment; place where indictment is to be tried

  In order to return a "True Bill" of indictment, twelve (12) or more state grand jurors must find that probable cause exists for the indictment and vote in favor of the indictment. Upon indictment by a state grand jury, the indictment shall be returned to the impaneling judge. If the impaneling judge considers the indictment to be within the authority of the state grand jury and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, he shall order the clerk of the state grand jury to certify the indictment and return the indictment to the county designated by the impaneling judge as the county in which the indictment shall be tried.   Indictments returned by a state grand jury are properly triable in any county of the state where any of the alleged conduct occurred. The impaneling judge to whom the indictment is returned shall designate the county in which the indictment shall be tried. If a multicount indictment returned by a state grand jury is properly triable in a single proceeding as otherwise provided by law, all counts may be tried in the county designated by the impaneling judge notwithstanding the fact that different counts may have occurred in more than one (1) county.   In determining the venue for indictments returned by a state grand jury, the impaneling judge shall select the county in which the state and defendant may receive a fair trial before an impartial jury taking into consideration the totality of the circumstances of each case.   When the indictment has been returned to the circuit clerk of the county designated by the impaneling judge, the capias shall be issued as otherwise provided by law. The indictment shall be kept secret until the defendant is in custody or has been released pending trial.
MS Code § 13-7-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 7 - State Grand Jury Act|§ 13-7-37. Immunity or privilege given on account of testimony; waiver

 If any person asks to be excused from testifying before a state grand jury or from producing any books, papers, records, correspondence or other documents before a state grand jury on the ground that the testimony or evidence required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to any penalty or forfeiture and such person, notwithstanding such ground, is directed by the impaneling judge to give the testimony or produce the evidence, he shall comply with this direction, but no testimony so given or evidence produced may be received against him in any criminal action, investigation or criminal proceeding. No individual testifying or producing evidence or documents is exempt from prosecution or punishment for any perjury committed by him while so testifying, and the testimony or evidence given or produced is admissible against him upon any criminal action, criminal investigation or criminal proceeding concerning this perjury; however, any individual may execute, acknowledge and file a statement with the appropriate court expressly waiving immunity or privilege in respect to any testimony given or produced and thereupon the testimony or evidence given or produced may be received or produced before any judge or justice, court tribunal, grand jury or otherwise, and if so received or produced, the individual is not entitled to any immunity or privilege on account of any testimony he may give or evidence produced.
MS Code § 13-7-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 7 - State Grand Jury Act|§ 13-7-39. Sealing of records, orders and subpoenas of grand jury

 Records, orders and subpoenas related to state grand jury proceedings shall be kept under seal to the extent and for the time that is necessary to prevent disclosure of matters occurring before a state grand jury.
MS Code § 13-7-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 7 - State Grand Jury Act|§ 13-7-41. Space for grand jury; cooperation of Department of Public Safety and Bureau of Narcotics

 The Attorney General shall make available suitable space for state grand juries to meet. The Mississippi Department of Public Safety and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics may provide such services as required by the Attorney General and the state grand juries.
MS Code § 13-7-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 7 - State Grand Jury Act|§ 13-7-43. Authority of Supreme Court to promulgate rules for operation of grand jury system

 The Supreme Court may promulgate rules as are necessary for the operation of the state grand jury system established by this chapter.
MS Code § 13-7-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 7 - State Grand Jury Act|§ 13-7-45. Severability provision

 If any part of this chapter is declared invalid, unenforceable or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, that part shall be severable from the remaining portions of this chapter, which portions shall remain in full force and effect as if the invalid, unenforceable or unconstitutional portion were omitted.
MS Code § 13-7-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 7 - State Grand Jury Act|§ 13-7-47. Retroactivity of chapter

 This chapter applies to offenses committed both before and after its effective date.
MS Code § 13-7-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 7 - State Grand Jury Act|§ 13-7-49. Chapter does not amend, repeal or supersede other laws governing grand juries, investigations, indictments or prosecutions

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as amending, repealing or superseding any other law of this state governing the powers and duties of county grand jurors, district attorneys or law enforcement agencies or other officials with regard to their authority to investigate, indict or prosecute offenses that are prescribed by this chapter as within the jurisdiction of the state grand jury.
MS Code § 15-1-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-1. Application of chapter

 The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any suit which is or shall be limited by any statute to be brought within a shorter time than is prescribed in this chapter, and such suit shall be brought within the time that may be limited by such statute.
MS Code § 15-1-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-3. Completion of limitation extinguishes right; partial payment

  The completion of the period of limitation prescribed to bar any action, shall defeat and extinguish the right as well as the remedy. However, the former legal obligation shall be a sufficient consideration to uphold a new promise based thereon.   In any case founded on a debt, when any part of the debt shall have been paid, or an acknowledgment of an existing liability, debt or claim, or any promise to pay the same shall have been made, the statute of limitations not having run, an action may be brought in such case within the period prescribed for the same, with the said period to begin after such payment, acknowledgment or promise.
MS Code § 15-1-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-5. Period of limitations shall not be changed by contract

 The limitations prescribed in this chapter shall not be changed in any way whatsoever by contract between parties, and any change in such limitations made by any contracts stipulation whatsoever shall be absolutely null and void, the object of this section being to make the period of limitations for the various causes of action the same for all litigants.
MS Code § 15-1-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-7. Limitations applicable to actions to recover land

 A person may not make an entry or commence an action to recover land except within ten years next after the time at which the right to make the entry or to bring the action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims, or, if the right shall not have accrued to any person through whom he claims, then except within ten years next after the time at which the right to make the entry or bring the action shall have first accrued to the person making or bringing the same. However, if, at the time at which the right of any person to make an entry or to bring an action to recover land shall have first accrued, such person shall have been under the disability of infancy or unsoundness of mind, then such person or the person claiming through him may, notwithstanding that the period of ten years hereinbefore limited shall have expired, make an entry or bring an action to recover the land at any time within ten years next after the time at which the person to whom the right shall have first accrued shall have ceased to be under either disability, or shall have died, whichever shall have first happened. However, when any person who shall be under either of the disabilities mentioned, at the time at which his right shall have first accrued, shall depart this life without having ceased to be under such disability, no time shall be allowed, by reason of the disability of any other person, to make an entry or to bring an action to recover the land beyond the period of ten years next after the time at which such person shall have died.
MS Code § 15-1-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-9. Limitations applicable to suits in equity to recover land

 A person claiming land in equity may not bring suit to recover the same except within the period during which, by virtue of Section 15-1-7, he might have made an entry or brought an action to recover the same, if he had been entitled at law to such an estate, interest, or right in or to the same as he shall claim therein in equity. However, in every case of a concealed fraud, the right of any person to bring suit in equity for the recovery of land, of which he or any person through whom he claims may have been deprived by such fraud, shall be deemed to have first accrued at and not before the time at which the fraud shall, or, with reasonable diligence might, have been first known or discovered.
MS Code § 15-1-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-13. Ten years' adverse possession gives title; exceptions

  Ten (10) years' actual adverse possession by any person claiming to be the owner for that time of any land, uninterruptedly continued for ten (10) years by occupancy, descent, conveyance, or otherwise, in whatever way such occupancy may have commenced or continued, shall vest in every actual occupant or possessor of such land a full and complete title, saving to persons under the disability of minority or unsoundness of mind the right to sue within ten (10) years after the removal of such disability, as provided in Section 15-1-7. However, the saving in favor of persons under disability of unsoundness of mind shall never extend longer than thirty-one (31) years.   For claims of adverse possession not matured as of July 1, 1998, the provisions of subsection (1) shall not apply to a landowner upon whose property a fence or driveway has been built who files with the chancery clerk within the ten (10) years required by this section a written notice that such fence or driveway is built without the permission of the landowner. Failure to file such notice shall not create any inference that property has been adversely possessed. The notice shall be filed in the land records by the chancery clerk and shall describe the property where said fence or driveway is constructed.
MS Code § 15-1-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-15. Three years' actual occupation under a tax title bars suit

 Actual occupation for three years, after two years from the day of sale of land held under a conveyance by a tax collector in pursuance of a sale for taxes, shall bar any suit to recover such land or assail such title because of any defect in the sale of the land for taxes, or in any precedent step to the sale, saving to minors and persons of unsound mind the right to bring suit within such time, after the removal of their disabilities, and upon the same terms as is provided for the redemption of land by such persons.
MS Code § 15-1-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-17. Limitations applicable to actions or suits to cancel tax titles

 The owner, mortgagee or other person interested in any land which has been sold or forfeited to the state for delinquent taxes may bring a suit or action to cancel the title of the state, or its patentees, or to recover said land from the state, or its patentees, on account of any defect, irregularity or illegality in the assessment, levy or sale of such land for delinquent taxes within two years after the period of redemption shall have expired, and not thereafter. However, the limitations herein fixed shall not apply when the taxes on such land had been paid prior to the time it was sold for taxes.   If any person entitled to bring any such suit or action shall, at the time at which the cause of action accrues, be under the disability of infancy, or unsoundness of mind, he may bring the suit or action within the time in this section respectively limited after his disability shall be removed but the saving of persons under disability shall never extend longer than twenty-one years.   The completion of the limitation herein prescribed to bar any action shall defeat and extinguish all the right, title and interest, including the right of possession in and to such land, of any and all persons whatsoever, except the State of Mississippi and its patentees, and it shall vest in the state, and its patentees, a fee simple title to such lands.
MS Code § 15-1-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-19. Limitations applicable to suits to redeem mortgage or deed of trust

 When a mortgagee, after condition broken, shall obtain the actual possession or receipt of the profits or rent of land embraced in his mortgage, the mortgagor, or any person claiming through him, may not bring a suit to redeem the mortgage except within ten years next after the time at which the mortgagee obtained such possession or receipt, unless in the meantime an acknowledgment of the title of the mortgagor, or of his right of redemption, shall have been given in writing, signed by the mortgagee, or the person claiming through him. In such case a suit may not be brought except within ten years next after the time at which such acknowledgment, or the last of such acknowledgments, if more than one, was given. Such acknowledgment shall be effectual only as against, and to the extent of the interest of the party signing it.
MS Code § 15-1-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-21. Actions on mortgages, deeds of trust, and statutory liens to be brought within time allowed for action upon writing in which debt is specified

 When a mortgage or deed of trust shall be given on real or personal estate, or when a lien shall be given by law, to secure the payment of a sum of money specified in any writing, an action or suit or other proceedings shall not be brought or had upon such lien, mortgage, or deed of trust to recover the sum of money so secured except within the time that may be allowed for the commencement of an action at law upon the writing in which the sum of money secured by such lien, mortgage, or deed of trust may be specified. In all cases where the remedy at law to recover the debt shall be barred, the remedy in equity on the mortgage shall be barred.
MS Code § 15-1-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-23. Limitations applicable to suits or actions on installment notes following foreclosure or sale of property pledged as security therefor

 In all cases, no suit or action shall hereafter be commenced or brought upon any installment note, or series of notes of three or more, whether due or not, where said note or notes are secured by mortgage, deed of trust, or otherwise, upon any property, real or personal, unless the same is commenced or brought within one year from the date of the foreclosure or sale of the property pledged as security for said note or notes.
MS Code § 15-1-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds|Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions|§ 15-1-25. Limitations applicable to action or scire facias against executor or administrator

 An action or scire facias may not be brought against any executor or administrator upon any judgment or other cause of action against his testator or intestate, except within four years after the qualification of such executor or administrator.