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MS Code § 11-39-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 39 - Quo Warranto|In General|§ 11-39-21. Disobedience punishable

 Any person who refuses or knowingly neglects to obey any order of the court made as herein provided, shall be guilty of contempt of court, and shall be fined in any sum not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), and imprisoned in the county jail until he comply with the order. He shall be further liable for damages resulting to any person on account of his refusal to obey.
MS Code § 11-39-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 39 - Quo Warranto|In General|§ 11-39-23. Private person relator, liable for costs

 When an information is upon the relation of a private individual, it shall be so stated in the petition and proceedings, and such individual shall be responsible for costs as plaintiffs are responsible in other cases.
MS Code § 11-39-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 39 - Quo Warranto|In General|§ 11-39-25. Trustees to be appointed

 When judgment of forfeiture and ouster shall be rendered against any corporation or against any person pretending to exercise corporate franchises, the debtors to such corporation, or other body, shall not be thereby released from their debts and liabilities, and it shall be the duty of the judge of the court rendering the judgment to appoint one or more trustees to take charge of the books, evidences of debts, assets and property of such corporation or body pretending to exercise corporate franchises. Such trustees are invested with full power and authority to sue, in their own name, for and to collect all debts due to such corporation or body pretending to exercise corporate franchise, and to be sued in any court upon permission to sue being first obtained from the chancery court, and, generally, to maintain any action, or to revive or have revived against them any suit or judgment for or against such corporation or other body. The proceeds of debts collected and property sold shall be applied by such trustees to the payment of the costs in the quo warranto proceedings and in payment of debts, under the direction of the court.
MS Code § 11-39-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 39 - Quo Warranto|In General|§ 11-39-27. Bond of trustees

 Before they enter upon the discharge of their duties, the trustees shall execute bond in such sum as may be prescribed, and with such sureties as may be approved by the judge, payable to the state, and conditioned for the faithful discharge of their duties as trustees, which bond may be put in suit for a breach thereof; and the amount collected thereon shall constitute a fund for the benefit of creditors or stockholders, as other funds of the corporation.
MS Code § 11-39-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 39 - Quo Warranto|In General|§ 11-39-29. Property surrendered to trustees

 It shall be the duty of all persons having possession of property or evidences of debt belonging to any corporation, or persons pretending to exercise corporate franchises, against which or whom judgment of forfeiture shall have been rendered, to surrender and deliver the same to the trustees so appointed, and, in case of failure to do so, such trustees may maintain an action therefor.
MS Code § 11-39-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 39 - Quo Warranto|In General|§ 11-39-31. Trustees to return inventory to chancery court-vacancies filled-new bonds

 It shall be the duty of the trustees, at the next succeeding term after their appointment of the chancery court of the county in which the quo warranto judgment was rendered, or at such other time as may be designated by the said chancery court or the chancellor, to return, under oath, to the court, a full and complete inventory of all evidences of debt, and property of every description, which may have come to their possession or knowledge as the property of the corporation or body pretending to exercise corporate franchises, and from time to time such further inventories as may be necessary, in case additional assets or property shall be discovered, which inventories shall be recorded by the clerk. The chancery court, or the chancellor in vacation, may remove trustees and appoint new ones, or fill vacancies in case of death or resignation, and may require new bonds of the trustees.
MS Code § 11-39-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 39 - Quo Warranto|In General|§ 11-39-33. Sales of property-proceedings-trustees not to buy

 The chancery court, or chancellor in vacation, shall order the sale of the property, real and personal, in the same manner and on the same terms as such property of intestate decedents is sold, and like proceedings shall be had as far as applicable. It shall not be lawful for a trustee to become the purchaser of any property sold by him in that capacity, or by his cotrustees, either directly or indirectly, or to act as agent of any other person in making such purchase; and all purchases in violation of this provision shall be void.
MS Code § 11-39-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 39 - Quo Warranto|In General|§ 11-39-35. Claims presented and audited-notice

 The chancery court shall require all claims against the funds in the hands of the trustees to be presented and audited in such manner as shall be deemed proper. Notice shall be given to all persons holding such claims to present and have them audited in the same manner as such notice is given in the administration of estates, and all claims not presented and audited within twelve months after the last publication shall be forever barred.
MS Code § 11-39-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 39 - Quo Warranto|In General|§ 11-39-37. Compensation of trustees and others

 The compensation of trustees and others shall be determined by the court, and allowed out of the effects of the corporation or other body, under the control of the court.
MS Code § 11-39-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 39 - Quo Warranto|In General|§ 11-39-39. Report of trustees, and order of paying debts

 It shall be the duty of the trustees, at the first term of the court after the time for presenting claims has elapsed, to make a full and complete report of all claims presented and audited, at which time exception may be taken to the allowance or rejection of any claim, and, if sustained, the report may be corrected. When the report is settled, and the amount of indebtedness ascertained, the court shall order the trustees to pay the debts in the following order:   The compensation to the trustees and others, and expenses incurred in settling the affairs of the corporation, including the payment of the costs in the quo warranto proceedings in the circuit court, and the costs in the chancery court.   Debts due to the state or any county, city, town, or village for taxes or otherwise.   A ratable distribution amongst creditors who have proved their claims, and had them allowed.   The surplus, if any, shall be ratably distributed among the stockholders, according to their respective rights.
MS Code § 11-39-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 39 - Quo Warranto|Trial of Right to Public Office in Vacation|§ 11-39-51. Right to public office triable in vacation

 A proceeding by quo warranto to try the right to any public office, may be tried and determined in vacation as well as in term time.
MS Code § 11-39-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 39 - Quo Warranto|Trial of Right to Public Office in Vacation|§ 11-39-59. Fees of officers, jurors, and witnesses

 The clerk, sheriff, jurors, and witnesses shall have the same allowance for attendance, to be taxed in the costs, as if their attendance was upon a circuit court, and shall be compellable to attend in like manner.
MS Code § 11-39-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 39 - Quo Warranto|Trial of Right to Public Office in Vacation|§ 11-39-61. Costs in such cases

 The judge, before making the order for trial in vacation or afterward, may impose such terms, and make such requirements as to costs and payment thereof or security therefor, as he thinks proper, and shall tax the costs of the case as he may deem just.
MS Code § 13-1-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 1 - Evidence|In General|§ 13-1-1. Provisions of chapter applicable to all courts

 All provisions contained in this chapter, unless restricted by their nature or by express provision to particular courts, shall apply to and govern all courts.
MS Code § 13-1-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 1 - Evidence|In General|§ 13-1-5. Competency of husband and wife

 Husbands and wives may be introduced by each other as witnesses in all cases, civil or criminal, and shall be competent witnesses in their own behalf, as against each other, in all controversies between them. Either spouse is a competent witness and may be compelled to testify against the other in any criminal prosecution of either husband or wife for a criminal act against any child, for contributing to the neglect or delinquency of a child, or desertion or nonsupport of children under the age of sixteen (16) years, or abandonment of children. But in all other instances where either of them is a party litigant the other shall not be competent as a witness and shall not be required to answer interrogatories or to make discovery of any matters involved in any such other instances without the consent of both.
MS Code § 13-1-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 1 - Evidence|In General|§ 13-1-11. Conviction, except for perjury or subornation of perjury, as no disqualification

 A conviction of a person for any offense, except perjury or subornation of perjury, shall not disqualify such person as a witness, but such conviction may be given in evidence to impeach his credibility. A person convicted of perjury or subornation of perjury shall not afterwards be a competent witness in any case, although pardoned or punished for the same.
MS Code § 13-1-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 1 - Evidence|In General|§ 13-1-13. Witness may be examined touching interest or convictions

 Any witness may be examined touching his interest in the cause or his conviction of any crime, and his answers may be contradicted, and his interest or his conviction of a crime established by other evidence. A witness shall not be excused from answering any material and relevant question, unless the answer would expose him to criminal prosecution or penalty.
MS Code § 13-1-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 1 - Evidence|In General|§ 13-1-19. Witness to be committed for refusal to testify

 If any person subpoenaed as a witness in any case or matter, shall refuse to be sworn or affirmed, or to give evidence, he shall be committed to prison by the court, justice, master, commissioner, referee, or other person authorized to take his testimony, there to remain without bail until he shall be sworn or affirmed or shall give his evidence.
MS Code § 13-1-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 1 - Evidence|In General|§ 13-1-21. Communications privileged; exception

  All communications made to a physician, osteopath, dentist, hospital, nurse, pharmacist, podiatrist, optometrist or chiropractor by a patient under his charge or by one seeking professional advice are hereby declared to be privileged, and such party shall not be required to disclose the same in any legal proceeding except at the instance of the patient or, in case of the death of the patient, at the instance of his personal representative or legal heirs in case there be no personal representative, or except, if the validity of the will of the decedent is in question, at the instance of the personal representative or any of the legal heirs or any contestant or proponent of the will.   Waiver of the medical privilege of patients regarding the release of medical information to health care personnel, the State Board of Health or local health departments, made to comply with Sections 41-3-15, 41-23-1 and 41-23-2 and related rules, shall be implied. The medical privilege likewise shall be waived to allow any physician, osteopath, dentist, hospital, nurse, pharmacist, podiatrist, optometrist or chiropractor to report to the State Department of Health necessary information regarding any person afflicted with any communicable disease or infected with the causative agent thereof who neglects or refuses to comply with accepted protective measures to prevent the transmission of the communicable disease.   Willful violations of the provisions of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor and shall be punishable as provided for by law. Any physician, osteopath, dentist, hospital, nurse, pharmacist, podiatrist, optometrist, or chiropractor shall be civilly liable for damages for any willful or reckless and wanton acts or omissions constituting such violations.   In any action commenced or claim made after July 1, 1983, against a physician, hospital, hospital employee, osteopath, dentist, nurse, pharmacist, podiatrist, optometrist or chiropractor for professional services rendered or which should have been rendered, the delivery of written notice of such claim or the filing of such an action shall constitute a waiver of the medical privilege and any medical information relevant to the allegation upon which the cause of action or claim is based shall be disclosed upon the request of the defendant, or his or her counsel.   In any disciplinary action commencing on or after July 1, 1987, against a medical physician, an osteopathic physician or a podiatrist pursuant to the provisions of Sections 73-25-1 through 73-25-39, 73-25-51 through 73-25-67, 73-25-81 through 73-25-95 and 73-27-1 through 73-27-19, waiver of the medical privilege of a patient to the extent of any information other than that which would identify the patient shall be implied.
MS Code § 13-1-21.1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 1 - Evidence|In General|§ 13-1-21.1. Medical privilege considered waived by and between defendants in medical malpractice suits involving multiple defendants

 In any medical malpractice action with multiple defendants, the medical privilege shall be considered waived by and between all defendants.
MS Code § 13-1-22 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 1 - Evidence|In General|§ 13-1-22. Confidentiality of priest-penitent communications

  As used in this section:   A "clergyman" is a minister, priest, rabbi, or other similar functionary of a church, religious organization, or religious denomination.   A communication is "confidential" if made privately and not intended for further disclosure except in furtherance of the purpose of the communication.     A person has a privilege to refuse to disclose and to prevent another from disclosing a confidential communication by the person to a clergyman in his professional character as spiritual adviser.   The privilege may be claimed by the person, by his guardian or conservator, or by his personal representative if he is deceased. The clergyman shall claim the privilege on behalf of the person unless the privilege is waived.   A clergyman's secretary, stenographer or clerk shall not be examined without the consent of the clergyman concerning any fact, the knowledge of which was acquired in such capacity.
MS Code § 13-1-22.1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 1 - Evidence|In General|§ 13-1-22.1. Certain communications made to certified peer support member by emergency responder to be privileged; definitions; exception to privilege; penalties

  As used in this section, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:   "Certified peer support member" means a law enforcement officer, fireman or emergency medical technician of an emergency service agency or entity who has received training in critical incident stress management and who is certified as a peer support member by the State Board of Health or the Department of Public Safety to provide emotional and moral support to an emergency responder who needs those services as a result of job-related stress or an incident in which the emergency responder was involved while acting in his official capacity.   "Peer support event" means any debriefing, defusing or counseling session conducted by a certified peer support member that involves the emotional or moral support of an emergency responder who needs those services as a result of job-related stress or an incident in which the emergency responder was involved while acting in his official capacity.     A certified peer support member shall not be compelled, without the consent of the emergency responder making the communication, to testify or in any way disclose the contents of any communication made to the certified peer support member by the emergency responder while engaged in a peer support event. This privilege only applies when the communication was made to the certified peer support member during the course of an actual peer support event.   The privilege shall not apply if:   The certified peer support member was an initial emergency service responder, a witness or a party to the incident that prompted the providing of the peer support event to the emergency responder;   A communication reveals the intended commission of a crime or harmful act and such disclosure is determined to be necessary by the certified peer support member to protect any person from a clear, imminent risk of serious mental or physical harm or injury, or to forestall a serious threat to the public safety; or   A crime has been committed and divulged.     Any certified peer support member who reveals the contents of a privileged communication, or any person who threatens, intimidates, or in any way attempts to compel a certified peer support member to disclose the contents of a privileged communication, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
MS Code § 13-1-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 1 - Evidence|In General|§ 13-1-23. Presumption of death

 Any person who shall remain beyond the sea, or absent himself from this state, or conceal himself in this state, for seven years successively without being heard of, shall be presumed to be dead in any case where his death shall come in question, unless proof be made that he was alive within that time. Any property or estate recovered in any such case shall be restored to the person evicted or deprived thereof, if, in a subsequent action, it shall be proved that the person so presumed to be dead is living.
MS Code § 13-1-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 1 - Evidence|In General|§ 13-1-25. Presumptions as to status of military and naval personnel or federal civilian employees

  A written finding of presumed death, made by any officer or employee of the United States authorized to make such finding, pursuant to federal law (5 USC §§ 5561-5568; 37 USC §§ 551-558), as now or hereafter amended, or a duly certified copy of such finding, shall be received in any court, office or other place in this state as prima facie evidence of the death of the person therein found to be dead, and the date, circumstances and place of his disappearance.   An official written report or record, or duly certified copy thereof, that a person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleaguered, besieged, or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive, made by any officer or employee of the United States authorized by the laws referred to in subsection (1) of this section or by any other law of the United States to make same, shall be received in any court, office or other place in this state as prima facie evidence that such person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleaguered, besieged, or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive, as the case may be.   For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2) of this section any finding, report or record, or duly certified copy thereof, purporting to have been signed by such an officer or employee of the United States as is described in said subsections shall prima facie be deemed to have been signed and issued by such an officer or employee pursuant to law, and the person signing same shall prima facie be deemed to have acted within the scope of his authority. If a copy purports to have been certified by a person authorized by law to certify the same, such certified copy shall be prima facie evidence of his authority so to certify.
MS Code § 13-1-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 1 - Evidence|In General|§ 13-1-77. State custodian of books authorized to certify copies; admissibility of copies

 All public officers in this state having the charge or custody of any public books, records, papers, or writings, are authorized to certify copies of the same.
MS Code § 13-1-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 1 - Evidence|In General|§ 13-1-81. Presumptions attending certificates, attestation, etc.

 Any certificate, attestation, or authentication, purporting to have been made or given by any person as an officer of any state or of the United States, shall be prima facie evidence of the official character of such person.
MS Code § 13-1-121 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 1 - Evidence|In General|§ 13-1-121. Injury to livestock in transit as prima facie evidence of carrier's want of skill

 In all actions against common carriers for injury or damage done to livestock while in transit, proof that the injury inflicted or damage done was inflicted or done to the livestock while in transit, shall be prima facie evidence of the want of reasonable skill and care on the part of the common carrier, their agents and employees in handling the shipment of livestock so injured or damaged.
MS Code § 13-1-123 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 1 - Evidence|In General|§ 13-1-123. Injury to persons or property from operation of motor vehicle as making out prima facie case

 In any action brought to recover any damages, either to person or property, caused by running or operating a motor vehicle in violation of any of the provisions of Chapters 3 and 5 of Title 63 of the Mississippi Code of 1972, the plaintiff or plaintiffs shall be deemed to have made out a prima facie case by showing the fact of such injury, and that such person or persons operating, or causing to be run or operated, such motor vehicle, was at the time of the injury running or operating, or causing the said motor vehicle to be run or operated in a manner contrary to the provisions of Chapters 3 and 5 of Title 63 of the Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 13-1-131 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 1 - Evidence|In General|§ 13-1-131. Land-office certificates

 All certificates issued in pursuance of any act of Congress by any board of commissioners, register of any land office, or any other person authorized to issue such certificate, founded on any warrant, order of survey, entry, grant, confirmation, donation, preemption, or purchase from the United States of any land in this state, shall vest the full legal title to such land in the person to whom such certificate is granted, his heirs or assigns, so far as to enable the holder thereof to maintain an action thereon.