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MS Code § 13-3-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-17. Substitution of parties in case of death of party

 Substitution of parties in case of death of a party shall be governed by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.
MS Code § 13-3-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-25. Summons by publication for unknown heirs and unknown defendants

 When unknown heirs are made parties defendant in any proceeding in the chancery court, upon affidavit that the names of such heirs are unknown, the complainant may have publication of summons for them and such proceedings shall be had thereupon in all respects as are authorized in the case of a nonresident defendant. When the parties in interest are unknown, and affidavit of that fact be filed, they may be made parties by publication to them as unknown parties in interest.
MS Code § 13-3-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-27. Publication of summons

 Publication of summons in all cases and in every court, when authorized by law, shall be made as prescribed in the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.
MS Code § 13-3-32 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-32. Publication-in what newspaper-presumption of continued qualification

 All newspapers which were qualified to publish legal notices and which were publishing legal notices prior to July 1, 1976, shall be presumed to qualify under Section 13-3-31 unless and until a determination has been made by competent authority that such newspaper fails to meet the requirements and provisions of Section 13-3-31.
MS Code § 13-3-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-37. Sheriff to mark and return process

 The sheriff shall mark on all process the day of the receipt thereof by him, and he shall return the same promptly and in any event within the time during which the person served must respond to the process, with a written statement of his proceedings thereon, and of his fees, for serving it. For failing to note the time of the receipt of process, or for failing to return the same, the sheriff shall forfeit to the party aggrieved the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), and shall be liable for all damages, and the court may enforce return of the process by fine and imprisonment for contempt. Whenever a sheriff of any county shall receive from another county any writ or other process directed to him, he shall not be liable for a failure to return the same to the county from which the same was issued if he shall show to the court that he mailed the same in the post office, directed to the clerk of the court by whom the same was issued, at least two (2) days before the sitting of the court to which the same was returnable.
MS Code § 13-3-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-41. Service on one carrying on business in state by or through trustee or attorney in fact

 All persons, firms, copartnerships or corporations carrying on business in the State of Mississippi, by or through trustees or attorneys in fact, may be served with process in all suits or proceedings in any court, by serving a copy of such process upon an agent of such trustees or attorneys in fact, in the same manner as is now provided for service of process upon foreign corporations.
MS Code § 13-3-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-49. Service when defendant is a corporation

 If the defendant in any suit or legal proceeding be a corporation, process may be served on the president or other head of the corporation, upon the cashier, secretary, treasurer, clerk, or agent of the corporation, or upon any one of the directors of such corporation. If the defendant corporation be a sleeping-car company, process may be served upon any conductor thereof. If the defendant corporation be a steamboat company, process may be served upon the captain or other officer of a boat thereof. If no such person or persons be found in the county, then it shall be sufficient to post a true copy of the process on the door of the office or principal place of business of the corporation. In suits against railroads, sleeping-car, telegraph, telephone, express, steamboat, and insurance companies or corporations, or in suits against a receiver or receivers in charge of the property of any such companies or corporations, the process may be served on any agent of the defendant or sent to any county in which the office or principal place of business may be located, and there served as herein directed and authorized, or process may be served on any one of the foregoing officers of such corporation or company, and upon the secretary, cashier, treasurer, clerk, depot agent, attorney or any other officer or agent of such receiver or receivers, or upon them in person. When any writ or process against such corporation, company, receiver or receivers has been returned executed, the defendant or defendants shall be considered in court, and the action shall proceed as actions against natural persons. All process and notices to be served upon such companies, corporations, or receivers may be served as herein directed.
MS Code § 13-3-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-53. Service on one of several executors or administrators

 If there be two or more executors or administrators of the same estate, if process cannot be served on all of them in suits against them, service on one shall be sufficient to authorize a judgment against all.
MS Code § 13-3-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-55. Suits by or against partnerships; service on one of several partners

 A partnership may sue or be sued in the partnership name, or in the names of the individuals composing the partnership, or both and service of process on any partner shall be sufficient to maintain the suit against all the partners so as to bind the assets of the partnership and of the individual summoned.
MS Code § 13-3-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-57. Service on nonresident business not qualified to do business in state; survival of cause of action in case of death or inability to act; service on nonresident executor, administrator, etc.

 Any nonresident person, firm, general or limited partnership, or any foreign or other corporation not qualified under the Constitution and laws of this state as to doing business herein, who shall make a contract with a resident of this state to be performed in whole or in part by any party in this state, or who shall commit a tort in whole or in part in this state against a resident or nonresident of this state, or who shall do any business or perform any character of work or service in this state, shall by such act or acts be deemed to be doing business in Mississippi and shall thereby be subjected to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state. Service of summons and process upon the defendant shall be had or made as is provided by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.   Any such cause of action against any such nonresident, in the event of death or inability to act for itself or himself, shall survive against the executor, administrator, receiver, trustee, or any other selected or appointed representative of such nonresident. Service of process or summons may be had or made upon such nonresident executor, administrator, receiver, trustee or any other selected or appointed representative of such nonresident as is provided by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure, and when such process or summons is served, made or had against the nonresident executor, administrator, receiver, trustee or other selected or appointed representative of such nonresident it shall be deemed sufficient service of such summons or process to give any court in this state in which such action may be filed, in accordance with the provisions of the statutes of the State of Mississippi or the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure, jurisdiction over the cause of action and over such nonresident executor, administrator, receiver, trustee or other selected or appointed representative of such nonresident insofar as such cause of action is involved.   The provisions of this section shall likewise apply to any person who is a nonresident at the time any action or proceeding is commenced against him even though said person was a resident at the time any action or proceeding accrued against him.
MS Code § 13-3-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-69. Process not void for certain defects

 If any matter required to be inserted in or indorsed on any process be omitted, such process shall not on that account be void, but it may be set aside as irregular, or amended on such terms as the court shall deem proper. The amendment may be made upon an application to set aside or quash the writ.
MS Code § 13-3-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-73. Plaintiff's options when sheriff kept off by force

 When the sheriff shall return, on any process, that he has been kept off by force, the plaintiff may issue an alias or pluries, as the case may be, or he may proceed in the action against the defendant as if the process had been returned executed.
MS Code § 13-3-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-75. Return of alias where first writ served

 If any process be executed, and for want of a return thereof other process be issued, the sheriff or other officer shall not execute the subsequent process, but shall return the first process by him executed, if it be in his possession, and, if it be not in his possession, he shall return the subsequent process, with an indorsement of the execution of the first process, and how it was executed, on which there shall be the same proceedings as if the said first process had been duly returned.
MS Code § 13-3-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-77. Process may be executed by an officer out of his county

 The sheriff or other proper officer of a county may execute process out of his county, in case the person to be served or property to be seized was in the officer's county when the writ was received, but had removed or been carried into another county before its execution. In such case the officer shall state the facts in his return, and the writ and return shall have the same effect as if the process had been returned not executed and a testatum or duplicate writ had been issued to and executed and returned by an officer of the county where served.
MS Code § 13-3-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-81. When justice court judge may execute process

 If there be no sheriff in any county, or if good cause of exception exists against him, by reason of his being a party to or interested in the suit, or otherwise, the process may be directed to any justice court judge of the county, who shall be bound to execute the same, and to do all things which the sheriff would be bound to do if no exception existed against him. In case of any neglect or breach of such duty, the justice court judge shall be liable to the same penalties and subject to the same actions and remedies as sheriffs are subject to in like cases.
MS Code § 13-3-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-83. Service of notices, summonses, subpoenas, orders, pleadings, motions, etc.

 All notices provided for by law appertaining to actions, suits or proceedings of any kind in any court shall be served and returned by the sheriff or any constable of the county, or the marshal of any city, town or village therein in which such notices are to be served, to whom such notices may be delivered for that purpose. However, service of summonses and subpoenas in all courts except justice court shall be governed by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure and in every instance, every order required by its terms to be served, every pleading subsequent to the original complaint unless the court otherwise orders because of numerous defendants, every paper relating to discovery required to be served upon a party unless the court otherwise orders, every written motion other than one which may be heard ex parte, and every written notice, appearance, demand, offer of judgment, designation of record on appeal and similar paper shall be served and filed in accordance with the provisions of the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.
MS Code § 13-3-85 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-85. Notice by summons of motions against officers for neglect of duty

 In all cases where motions are made against officers, or officers and their sureties, for neglect of official duty under any law, five days' notice shall be given by summons, to be served as in other cases, and this shall apply to motions against the personal representative of a deceased officer.
MS Code § 13-3-87 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-87. Return of officer may be questioned by parties

 The return of the officer serving any process may, in the same action, be shown to be untrue by either of the parties, but the officer himself shall not be permitted to question its truth.
MS Code § 13-3-91 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-91. Reversal, on appeal by defendant, for want of service or defective service as an appearance

 Where a judgment or decree is reversed on appeal taken by defendant for the want of service, or because of defective service of process, a new summons or citation need not be issued or served, but the defendant shall, without such process or service, be presumed to have entered his appearance to the cause in the court from which the appeal was taken when the mandate shall be filed therein.
MS Code § 13-3-93 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-93. Subpoenas for witnesses

 The first process, in all civil actions, and in all courts, to compel the attendance of a witness, shall be a subpoena, the procedural aspects of which shall be governed by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.
MS Code § 13-3-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-103. Attachment for non-appearing subpoenaed witness

 If any person subpoenaed as a witness shall fail to appear and attend as required, an attachment shall be issued by order of the court or other authority before which he was subpoenaed to appear, returnable at such time as the court or authority may appoint. The court or authority shall, on ordering the attachment, direct whether the witness shall enter into bond for his appearance, and in what sum, and whether with or without sureties, which bond the sheriff, or other officer by whom the attachment is executed, is authorized to take, payable to the state. In case the witness shall appear in answer to the attachment, the court may discharge him therefrom, on good cause shown, or may require him to enter into recognizance or bond for his appearance until discharged, to testify in the cause. In case the witness shall not appear, in pursuance of his recognizance or bond, the same proceedings shall be had as upon the forfeiture of a recognizance in a criminal case.
MS Code § 13-3-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-105. Subpoenaed witness to attend until discharged; scire facias for defaulters

 Every witness subpoenaed in any case, civil or criminal, shall attend, from day to day, and from term to term without further notice, until discharged by the court or by the party at whose instance he was subpoenaed, and in default thereof he shall be fined by the court not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), and a scire facias shall issue thereon, requiring him to appear at the next term of the court, to show cause why the fine should not be made absolute. If cause be not then shown, the fine shall be made final. In criminal cases, the court may cause the witnesses on either side to be bound by bond or recognizance to appear and testify until discharged.
MS Code § 13-3-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-107. Settlement of certain civil suits; notice to be given to subpoenaed witnesses and effect of failure to do so

 If a civil suit shall be settled in vacation, notice thereof shall be given to the witnesses subpoenaed to appear. If such notice is not given, they shall be entitled to the same compensation for their subsequent attendance in pursuance of the subpoena as if the suit had not been settled.
MS Code § 13-3-109 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-109. Issuance of process by supreme court and its return

 The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall issue all process which may be ordered to issue by the court or any judge thereof. All process issuing from said court or on the order of any judge thereof, or which may be returnable therein, shall be under the seal of the court, and be signed by the clerk thereof, and may be directed to the sheriff or other proper officer of any county, who shall execute and return the same according to the command thereof. Whenever any such process shall not be executed or not returned, an alias may be issued by the clerk on the application of the person who sued out the former process.
MS Code § 13-3-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-111. Time when executions shall be issued

 The clerks of all courts of law or equity, after the adjournment of the court for the term shall, at the request and cost of the owner of the judgment or decree or his attorney, issue executions on all judgments and decrees rendered therein, and place the same in the hands of the sheriff of the county. The sheriff shall effectuate any execution on a judgment. If requested by such owner, they shall issue executions directed to the sheriff of any other county, and shall deliver the same to the owner or his attorney.
MS Code § 13-3-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-113. Issuance, execution, and return of executions

 Writs of execution shall bear date and be issued in the same manner as original process, and shall be made returnable on the first day of the next term of the court in which the judgment or decree was rendered, if there be fifteen days between the issuance and return thereof, and, if not, on the first day of the term next thereafter. Such execution may be directed to the sheriff or other proper officer of any county, who shall serve and execute the same, and make return thereof to the court in which the judgment or decree was rendered.
MS Code § 13-3-115 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-115. Issuance of subsequent execution

 If a first writ of execution shall not have been returned and shall not have been executed, the clerk may issue another execution at the cost of any party in whose favor the execution was issued, if such party shall desire to take out another execution.
MS Code § 13-3-117 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-117. Issuance of execution against several defendants

 When one judgment has been recovered against several defendants, execution shall issue thereon against all the defendants, and not otherwise.
MS Code § 13-3-119 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-119. Effect of death of one or more of several defendants before issuance of execution

 If one or more of several defendants have died before the issuance of a writ of execution, and a revivor shall not have been had, the fact of the death shall be noted on the writ, and the property of the survivors only shall be liable to the execution in such case.
MS Code § 13-3-121 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-121. Execution for costs of Supreme Court

 In cases decided in the Supreme Court, or dismissed or otherwise disposed of, the clerk of the court may issue executions for costs accrued in the Supreme Court, in excess of the filing fee, in the same manner that the clerks of the circuit courts are authorized to issue executions against any party liable therefor. Such executions may be directed to the sheriff of any county, and shall be returned in the same manner and under like penalties as in case of executions returnable to the circuit court.
MS Code § 13-3-123 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-123. Levy of writs of execution and attachments-on land

 In case of a levy of an attachment on real estate in the occupancy of any person, the officer shall go to the house or upon the land of the defendant, and there declare that he attaches the same at the suit of the plaintiff, but if the land be unoccupied, or if the process be an execution, he may attach or levy upon the same by returning that he has attached or levied upon the land, describing it by numbers or otherwise properly, and, if the process be an attachment, stating that the land is unoccupied; and in all cases the return of the officer shall be conclusive of the facts stated therein, except on timely motion to quash.
MS Code § 13-3-125 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-125. Levy of writs of execution and attachments - on personalty

 If the levy be upon personal property the officer shall take the same into his possession and dispose of it according to law.
MS Code § 13-3-127 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 13 - Evidence, Process and Juries|Chapter 3 - Process, Notice, and Publication|§ 13-3-127. Levy of writs of execution and attachments - on choses in action

 In case an attachment be levied on rights, credits, and choses in action, the officer shall take into his possession the books of accounts and other evidences of debt belonging to the defendant, and if the plaintiff so direct, he shall summon all persons appearing to be indebted to the defendant, or to have effects of his in their hands, as garnishees, in the manner prescribed by law.