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MS Code § 11-46-20 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 46 - Immunity of State and Political Subdivisions From Liability and Suit for Torts and Torts of Employees|§ 11-46-20. Tort Claims Board; regulation of liability coverage of governmental entities; annual review of insurance plans; other powers; fees

  The Tort Claims Board shall be charged with the responsibility to regulate all liability coverage of governmental entities required to have certificates of coverage under this chapter which elect to provide the same through a public entity group or individual self-insurance program. This regulation shall be accomplished through an initial approval as provided in Section 11-46-17 and by ongoing or annual review. Each self-insurance program shall annually submit to the Tort Claims Board the following items within ninety (90) days from the end of the group year:   An audited financial statement;   An actuarial valuation;   Contracts with third-party administrators (if any);   Excess insurance policies;   A list of members and premiums due from and collected from each member; and   Other data as may be required by the Tort Claims Board.     Areas of regulation under this section shall include, but not be limited to, the following:   Financial solvency;   Rating plans, rates and rating basis;   Assessment plans of public entity groups;   Coverages offered and excluded;   Deductibles and deductible credits;   Proper purchase of excess insurance or reinsurance; and   Review of losses, reserves and expenses annually.     Individual self-insurers and group public entity self-insurers must provide the data requested for the purposes of this section in order to receive continuing approval of the Tort Claims Board and issuance of annual certificates of coverage to the governmental entities involved.   The Tort Claims Board is authorized to assess and charge appropriate fees for the costs of regulation, as determined by the board, to the individual self-insurers and group public entity self-insurers being regulated.   The Tort Claims Board is empowered to:   Issue cease and desist orders;   Require rate increases or decreases;   Require assessments of members of group public entity self-insurers in such amounts as are authorized and required by the board;   Require changes in excess insurance or reinsurance; or   Take such other actions as deemed necessary by the board to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
MS Code § 11-46-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 46 - Immunity of State and Political Subdivisions From Liability and Suit for Torts and Torts of Employees|§ 11-46-23. Provisions of chapter independent and severable

 If any provision or clause of Chapter 46, Title 11, Mississippi Code of 1972, or application thereof is held invalid or unenforceable for any reason, such holding shall have no effect on any other provisions or applications of Chapter 46, Title 11, Mississippi Code of 1972, and to this end the provisions of Chapter 46, Title 11, Mississippi Code of 1972, are declared to be severable.
MS Code § 11-47-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 47 - Lis Pendens|§ 11-47-1. Record to be kept by chancery clerk

 The clerk of the chancery court shall keep in his office, as a public record, a suitable book, to be called the "Lis Pendens Record."
MS Code § 11-47-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 47 - Lis Pendens|§ 11-47-3. Notice of suit affecting real estate recorded

 When any person shall begin a suit in any court, whether by declaration or bill, or by cross-complaint, to enforce a lien upon, right to, or interest in, any real estate, unless the claim be founded upon an instrument which is recorded, or upon a judgment duly enrolled, in the county in which the real estate is situated, such person shall file with the clerk of the chancery court of each county where the real estate, or any part thereof, is situated, a notice containing the names of all the parties to the suit, a description of the real estate, and a brief statement of the nature of the lien, right, or interest sought to be enforced. The clerk shall immediately file and record the notice in the lis pendens record, and note on it, and in the record, the hour and day of filing and recording.
MS Code § 11-47-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 47 - Lis Pendens|§ 11-47-5. Notice by officer levying on real estate

 When the sheriff, United States marshal, or other officer, shall levy upon real estate by virtue of any process, unless it be in execution upon a judgment which is duly enrolled in the county where the real estate is situated, he shall file with the clerk of the chancery court of each county in which the real estate, or any part thereof, is situated, a notice of the levy, containing the names of the parties to the proceedings, the kind of process, and a description of the real estate levied on. The clerk shall file, record and note upon the notice and record, as required in Section 11-47-3.
MS Code § 11-47-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 47 - Lis Pendens|§ 11-47-7. Clerk to index the record

 The clerk, upon filing and recording each notice, shall index the same, both directly and indirectly, under the name of each party, each plaintiff or complainant, against each defendant, and each defendant at the suit of each plaintiff or complainant.
MS Code § 11-47-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 47 - Lis Pendens|§ 11-47-9. Effect of failure to enter notice

 If a person beginning any such suit, by declaration, bill, or cross-complaint affecting real estate, or if an officer levying any process upon real estate, shall fail to have the required notice entered in the lis pendens record, such suit or levy shall not affect the rights of bona fide purchasers or incumbrancers of such real estate, unless they have actual notice of the suit or levy.
MS Code § 11-47-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 47 - Lis Pendens|§ 11-47-11. Result of proceeding entered

 Where the proceedings in or as to the suit or levy, notice of which has been entered in the lis pendens record, shall be terminated, whether on the merits or not, the court wherein the same were pending shall direct the clerk who has the record to make such entry therein as it shall prescribe, to give notice of the result of the proceedings and of the devolution of the real estate; and the clerk shall at once, on presentation thereof, file and record the prescribed entry and note the date of filing and recording on the record.
MS Code § 11-47-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 47 - Lis Pendens|§ 11-47-13. Liability of a clerk, sheriff, or other officer

 If any clerk fail to perform any of the duties herein required of him, he shall be liable on his official bond to any party injured for all damages he may have sustained. If any sheriff, marshal, or other officer, fail to file the notice provided for in this chapter, upon the levy by him of any process on real estate, he shall be liable on his bond for all damages resulting therefrom.
MS Code § 11-47-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 47 - Lis Pendens|§ 11-47-15. Form of the docket

 The lis pendens docket shall be ruled, and have printed at the top of the pages, or opposite page, the following headings for the columns, and the entries shall correspond with them, viz.: Names of plaintiffs; names of defendants; kind of suit or writ; when suit instituted or writ levied; in, or from what court; nature of the suit or writ; description of the land involved or levied on; date of filing and recording lis pendens notice; result of the suit or levy; and remarks.
MS Code § 11-49-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 49 - Rights and Duties of Attorneys, Generally|§ 11-49-1. Attorney to state residence of plaintiff

 Any attorney whose name is subscribed to or indorsed on any declaration or bill or petition in chancery, shall, on demand in writing, made by or on behalf of the defendant, declare forthwith, in writing, whether the suit has been brought by him, or with his authority or privity, and also the place of abode of the plaintiff; and if such attorney shall state that the suit was not brought by him, or with his authority or privity, or shall refuse to declare the place of abode of the plaintiff, then no further proceedings shall be taken in the action without leave of the court.
MS Code § 11-49-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 49 - Rights and Duties of Attorneys, Generally|§ 11-49-3. Proceedings for money collected

 Every attorney or counselor at law receiving money for his client, and failing or refusing to pay the same when demanded, may be proceeded against in a summary way, by motion before the circuit court of the county where such attorney or counselor usually resides, or where he may be found, or before the court in which the money was collected, in the same manner that sheriffs are liable to be proceeded against for money collected on execution, five days' notice of such motion being given. In addition to the principal and legal interest, damages at ten per centum on the amount thereof shall be awarded. In case the failure to pay over said money shall appear to have been wilful and without reasonable excuse, the court shall fine and imprison such attorney or counselor as for a contempt and strike his name from the roll and revoke his license, or may suspend his right to practice until the money shall be paid over.
MS Code § 11-49-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 49 - Rights and Duties of Attorneys, Generally|§ 11-49-5. Attorney not to have pay as a witness

 An attorney or counselor at law shall not be allowed any compensation as a witness in any cause in which he shall be concerned as attorney or counsel.
MS Code § 11-49-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 49 - Rights and Duties of Attorneys, Generally|§ 11-49-7. Right to inspect papers

 Every attorney or counselor at law, practicing in any court in this state, shall be allowed, at all reasonable times, to inspect the papers and records relating to any suit in such court in which he may be concerned as attorney or counsel, without being compelled to take copies thereof. A clerk of any court may permit an attorney to take out of the office the papers in which he is interested, under such regulations as the court or the law may prescribe.
MS Code § 11-49-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 49 - Rights and Duties of Attorneys, Generally|§ 11-49-9. Limitation of number to argue cause

 A court shall not permit more than two attorneys to argue on one side, unless good cause be shown therefor.
MS Code § 11-49-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 49 - Rights and Duties of Attorneys, Generally|§ 11-49-11. Notice to attorney as effectual as if to his client

 Any notice required in the progress of a suit or action, in any court of this state, shall be as valid and effectual when served on the attorney or solicitor of the party in that cause as if served on the party himself.
MS Code § 11-51-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 51 - Appeals|§ 11-51-3. Appeals to Supreme Court

 An appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court from any final judgment of a circuit or chancery court in a civil case, not being a judgment by default, by any of the parties or legal representatives of such parties; and in no case shall such appeal be held to vacate the judgment or decree.
MS Code § 11-51-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 51 - Appeals|§ 11-51-9. Decrees in matters testamentary

 The final decrees of chancery courts, and interlocutory orders or decrees named in this chapter, include such final or interlocutory decrees as may be made in matters testamentary and of administration, and in minors' business, and in cases of persons of unsound mind, unless it be otherwise expressly provided by a statute applicable to such cases.
MS Code § 11-51-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 51 - Appeals|§ 11-51-11. Appeal from judgment of criminal contempt

  A person ordered by any tribunal, except the Supreme Court, to be punished for a contempt, may appeal to the court to which other cases are appealable from said tribunal. Where the punishment is either a fine only, or jail confinement only, the appeal shall be allowed upon the posting of a bond, payable to the state, with sufficient sureties, not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), conditioned to abide the results of the appeal. Where the punishment is both a fine and jail confinement, the appeal shall be allowed upon the posting of a bond, not exceeding Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00), conditioned to appear in the court to which the appeal is prosecuted and to abide the results of such appeal.   The amount of the bonds provided for in subsection (1) of this section shall be fixed by the tribunal appealed from, shall be approved by the sheriff or other officer in whose custody the appellant may be and shall not be construed as a limitation on the amount of any fine which may be imposed.   All appeals allowed in accordance with the provisions of this section shall operate as a supersedeas.   The burden of proof in criminal contempt shall be proof beyond a reasonable doubt. A contemnor shall not be entitled to a jury trial unless the contemnor requests a jury trial and unless the fine exceeds Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or the imprisonment exceeds six (6) months.
MS Code § 11-51-12 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 51 - Appeals|§ 11-51-12. Appeal from judgment of civil contempt

  A person ordered by any tribunal, except the Supreme Court, to be punished for a civil contempt, may appeal to the court to which other cases are appealable from said tribunal. If jail confinement is ordered to compel the payment of any monetary sum, the contemnor shall be allowed to appeal upon the execution of an appearance bond, payable to the appellee, with sufficient sureties, in the penalty of one hundred twenty-five percent (125%) of such sum as he has been adjudicated in contempt for failure to pay, unless the court shall determine that a lesser bond should be required. The bond shall be conditioned to abide the results of the appeal.   Where the punishment for civil contempt is other than jail confinement, the contemnor shall be allowed to appeal upon the posting of a bond, payable to the appellee, with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the tribunal appealed from, in an amount to be fixed by such tribunal, conditioned to abide the results of the appeal.   All appeals allowed in accordance with the provisions of this section shall operate as a supersedeas.   The burden of proof in civil contempt shall be proof by a preponderance of the evidence.
MS Code § 11-51-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 51 - Appeals|§ 11-51-17. One of several parties may appeal; failure to join appeal

 Any one or more of the parties to a judgment or decree may appeal therefrom. If all the parties to a judgment after receiving notice thereof in the time required by the Supreme Court do not join the appeal, they shall not afterward have the right of appeal, and the judgment of the court below shall remain in full force against them.
MS Code § 11-51-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 51 - Appeals|§ 11-51-21. Bond to be given by parties who join in the appeal

 If the parties summoned to join in the appeal desire to do so, they must comply with the requirements to perfect an appeal as if they had appealed in the first instance, or they shall not be allowed to join in said appeal. Such compliance shall be made within the time required by the Supreme Court, and if a supersedeas bond be filed, may be approved by the Clerk of the Supreme Court, or the clerk of the court from whose judgment the appeal was taken, and certified and filed in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court.
MS Code § 11-51-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 51 - Appeals|§ 11-51-23. Execution when suspended as to some parties

 If only part of those against whom a judgment or decree is rendered appeal and supersede its execution, an execution may be issued against all, and the clerk issuing it shall note on it the fact of the supersedeas as to those who appeal, and it shall be executed only as to the others.
MS Code § 11-51-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 51 - Appeals|§ 11-51-27. Terms for granting appeal

 An appeal may be granted by the court in all cases, upon terms prescribed, which shall include payment of all costs in the lower court.
MS Code § 11-51-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 51 - Appeals|§ 11-51-29. Prepayment of costs in civil cases on appeal

 On appeals from decrees overruling demurrers or other interlocutory orders or decrees, or where the appeal is granted to settle the principles of the case, or on appeals from final judgments of a circuit court in civil cases, or from final decrees of a chancery court including cases where the circuit court or chancery court has acted as an appellate court, the appellant shall prepay all of the costs in the lower court including the cost of the preparation of the record of the proceedings in the trial court, and fee prescribed in Section 25-7-3, to the clerk of the court from which the appeal is taken.
MS Code § 11-51-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 51 - Appeals|§ 11-51-31. Bond for supersedeas

  A supersedeas shall not be granted in any case pending before the Supreme Court, unless the party applying for it shall give bond as required by the Rules of the Supreme Court.   In civil litigation under any legal theory, the appeal bond to be furnished during the pendency of all appeals or discretionary reviews by any appellate courts in order to stay the execution of any judgment granting legal, equitable, or other relief during the entire course of appellate review shall be set in accordance with applicable laws or court rules, except that the total appeal bond or other forms of security that are required of an appellant shall be in the amount of the judgment, but not to exceed fifty percent (50%) of the net worth of the appellant, and in no event shall the appeal bond exceed Thirty-five Million Dollars ($35,000,000.00).   Notwithstanding subsection (2) of this section, if an appellee proves by a preponderance of the evidence that an appellant is dissipating assets outside the ordinary course of business to avoid payment of a judgment, a court may enter orders that:   Are necessary to protect the appellee; and   Require the appellant to post a bond in an amount up to the total amount of the judgment.     In this section:   "Civil litigation" includes, without limitation, cases involving individual, aggregated, class action, or otherwise joined claims.   "Legal, equitable, or other relief" means all forms of relief including, without limitation, compensatory, special, punitive, exemplary or other damages, injunctive relief, or any other form of relief.   "Dissipation of assets" shall not include expenditures, including payments to the owners of a business, of a kind that the appellant made in the regular course of business prior to entry of the judgment being appealed.     The provisions of this section shall apply to all judgments entered on or after July 1, 2016, regardless of the date the civil litigation was filed.
MS Code § 11-51-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 51 - Appeals|§ 11-51-33. Parties and sureties on bonds examined on oath

 To enable the clerk to determine the value or amount of the matter in controversy, or the value of rents, where the same shall not appear by the proceedings in the cause, he may examine the parties and other persons, on oath. He may also examine, on oath, all persons who may be offered as sureties on any supersedeas bond, touching their sufficiency as such sureties, and require the examination to be put in writing and signed by such persons.
MS Code § 11-51-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 51 - Appeals|§ 11-51-37. Judgment on bond to supersede writ of possession

 If the judgment or decree as to the land embraced in the stay of execution obtained under Section 11-51-35 shall be affirmed, the court below, on the receipt of the certificate of the affirmance, shall, after the obligors in the supersedeas bond have been summoned, proceed to inquire, as well of the value of the use and occupation of said land as of the damages by any waste or injury contemplated by the bond. Judgment for the sums assessed shall be rendered against the obligors in the bond, or such as are alive; and if any be dead, like proceedings in all respects may be had as are provided for in other cases of deceased obligors in bonds given in legal proceedings.
MS Code § 11-51-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 51 - Appeals|§ 11-51-39. Requirements of supersedeas bond where judgment appealed from directs sale or delivery of possession of real estate

 If the judgment appealed from directs the sale or the delivery of possession of real estate, the supersedeas bond shall be conditioned to pay all damages, and not to commit or suffer to be committed any waste thereon, and to pay the value of the use and occupation thereof until the delivery of possession, in case the possession is to be surrendered, if the judgment appealed from shall be affirmed. In such case, the chancery court, when the cause shall be remanded, shall ascertain the value of the use and occupation and of any waste committed and the damages, and shall render such judgment therefor against the obligors in the supersedeas bond, or the representatives of any who have died, as may be necessary to secure the rights of the party entitled to such judgment. A judgment for the sums assessed shall be rendered against the obligors in the bond or such as are alive; and if any be dead, like proceedings may be had in all respects as provided for in other cases of deceased obligors in bonds given in legal proceedings.
MS Code § 11-51-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 51 - Appeals|§ 11-51-43. Supersedeas in cases not provided for

 In any case of an appeal to the Supreme Court, where no special provision is made by law for a supersedeas of the judgment or decree appealed from, or for the bond to be given in such case, a supersedeas may be allowed by the court rendering the judgment or decree appealed from or by the judge thereof, or by the supreme court or any of the judges of said court, upon such bond, with such sureties as said court or judge may direct in the order for a supersedeas.
MS Code § 11-51-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 51 - Appeals|§ 11-51-45. When bond made payable to state

 In all cases not specially provided for, the supersedeas bond may be made payable to the state. Where it is provided that such bond shall be made payable to the opposite party, it shall not be an objection to the bond that it is not payable to the proper person, but such bond shall be valid and binding on the obligors, and may be proceeded on in all respects as if it were payable as directed by law.