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MS Code § 87-1-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 87 - Contracts and Contractual Relations|Chapter 1 - Gambling and Future Contracts|§ 87-1-27. Gambling and future contracts; witnesses denied privilege against self incrimination

 No person shall be excused in any prosecution under Sections 87-1-1 through 87-1-25, concerning gambling and future contracts, from testifying touching anything done by himself or others, contrary to the provisions of said sections; but any discovery made by a witness upon such examination shall not be used against him in any penal or criminal prosecution, and he shall be altogether pardoned of the offense so done or participated in by him.
MS Code § 87-1-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 87 - Contracts and Contractual Relations|Chapter 1 - Gambling and Future Contracts|§ 87-1-29. Principal entitled to certain written information

 Every person shall furnish upon demand to any principal for whom such person has executed any contract of sale for the future delivery of any cotton, grain, stocks or other commodities a written instrument setting forth the name and location of the exchange, board of trade or similar institution upon which such contract has been executed, the date of execution of the contract and the name and address of the persons with whom such contract was executed and if such person shall refuse or neglect to furnish such statement upon reasonable demand, such refusal or neglect shall be prima facie evidence that such contract was an illegal contract within the provisions of Section 87-1-19, and that the person who executed it was engaged in the maintenance and operation of a "bucket shop" within the provisions of Section 87-1-21.
MS Code § 87-1-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 87 - Contracts and Contractual Relations|Chapter 1 - Gambling and Future Contracts|§ 87-1-31. Prohibition against buying or selling futures

 If any person shall buy or sell commodities of any kind, to be delivered at a future day, without agreeing and intending that the commodities are to be actually delivered in kind, and the price paid, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished as prescribed in section 87-1-33.
MS Code § 87-1-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 87 - Contracts and Contractual Relations|Chapter 1 - Gambling and Future Contracts|§ 87-1-33. Penalty for dealing in futures

 If any person shall deal in contracts called "futures," or shall, by himself or his agent, directly or indirectly buy or sell any "future" contract, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), and be imprisoned in the county jail not more than three (3) months.
MS Code § 87-5-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 87 - Contracts and Contractual Relations|Chapter 5 - Principal and Surety|§ 87-5-1. Surety discharged if creditor fails to sue the principal debtor when notified

 Any person bound as surety or accommodation indorser for another, may, at any time after the debt has become due or liability been incurred, give notice in writing to the creditor to commence and prosecute legal proceedings against the principal debtor, if living and resident within this state, for the recovery of the debt; and if the creditor fails to commence legal proceedings by the next term of the court in which the same shall be instituted, to be held after the expiration of thirty (30) days from the giving of the notice, and to prosecute the same to effect, the surety who shall have given the notice shall be discharged from liability. It shall not be lawful to plead or to give in evidence under this section a notice not in writing, and any act of the creditor shall not be a waiver of notice in writing as herein required.
MS Code § 87-5-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 87 - Contracts and Contractual Relations|Chapter 5 - Principal and Surety|§ 87-5-3. Surety paying or tendering the debt

 When any person who is bound as surety or indorser for another on any writing, for the payment of money or other thing, which shall remain unpaid, in whole or in part, by the principal debtor, after the maturity thereof, shall pay or tender to the creditor or holder of such writing the amount due thereon, the creditor or holder shall assign such writing to the surety or indorser paying or tendering the money or other thing due; and such assignee may have an action in his own name against the principal debtor upon the writing, to recover the amount paid in satisfaction of it.
MS Code § 87-5-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 87 - Contracts and Contractual Relations|Chapter 5 - Principal and Surety|§ 87-5-5. Surety company may maintain action against defaulting principal

 When any surety or guaranty company has executed any bond or other contract as surety for any person, company or corporation, guaranteeing the performance of any duty or the payment of any money, and such person, company or corporation make default therein and said surety or guaranty company pays the amount for which the party insured or guaranteed is legally liable, the said surety or guaranty company becomes thereby subrogated to all the rights of the party in whose favor the security or guaranty is given, and such company may have and maintain an action against the principal in its own name to recover the amount paid out in satisfaction thereof.
MS Code § 87-5-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 87 - Contracts and Contractual Relations|Chapter 5 - Principal and Surety|§ 87-5-7. Surety or indorser, when sued alone, must notify principal and make defense

 A surety or indorser shall not suffer judgment or a decree to be rendered against him by confession or default, without the consent of the principal debtor. And a surety or indorser who shall be sued alone, shall give notice of the suit to the principal debtor, if resident in this state, and if he have knowledge or information of any defense to the action which the principal debtor has, he shall make such defense; and if a surety or indorser, when sued alone, fail to give such notice to the principal debtor, in case he be a resident of this state, or to make such defense in the action of which he has knowledge or information, he shall be barred of all recovery against the principal debtor in case the principal debtor have at the time a good defense to the action of the creditor.
MS Code § 87-5-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 87 - Contracts and Contractual Relations|Chapter 5 - Principal and Surety|§ 87-5-9. Surety paying a judgment

 If a judgment or decree be rendered by any court against a principal debtor and his surety, or against his sureties, and one or more of his sureties shall pay and satisfy the judgment or decree, the same shall, by operation of law, be thereby transferred and assigned to the surety or sureties paying and satisfying it, who shall have all the liens and equities of such judgment or decree and of the debt or claim on which the same is founded, which the creditor therein had. The surety, on making affidavit of his suretyship, and of his having paid the judgment or decree, and filing the affidavit and any evidence of such payment that he may hold, with the officer authorized to issue execution on the judgment or decree to whom he may apply for execution, shall be entitled to have execution issued on the judgment or decree, in the name of the plaintiff or complainant against the defendants therein, as if the judgment or decree had not been paid and satisfied. The officer issuing the execution shall indorse thereon that it is issued for the use of the surety who paid the judgment or decree; and the officer serving it shall collect the money, for the use of the surety, from the principal debtor, if he be a party to the judgment or decree and the money can be made out of him; and, if not, he shall collect a ratable proportion of the money from each of the co-sureties.
MS Code § 87-5-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 87 - Contracts and Contractual Relations|Chapter 5 - Principal and Surety|§ 87-5-11. Bona fide purchasers and encumbrancers protected

 If such judgment or decree as is referred to in Section 87-5-9 shall appear to be satisfied, either on the judgment-roll, execution docket, or other record, property conveyed or encumbered thereafter by the principal debtor or sureties to any one for a valuable consideration, without notice of the fact that it was paid and satisfied by a surety, shall not be liable to such judgment or decree, unless at the time the property was conveyed or encumbranced, the record which showed the satisfaction of the judgment or decree, shall also show the fact that it was paid and satisfied by a surety, and the name of such surety.
MS Code § 87-5-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 87 - Contracts and Contractual Relations|Chapter 5 - Principal and Surety|§ 87-5-13. Execution against principal and sureties; how served

 When execution shall issue on any judgment or decree rendered against a principal and surety, and the surety shall make affidavit that he is only surety on the instrument upon which the judgment or decree is founded, and deliver it to the officer serving the execution, the officer shall make the money, or as much thereof as possible, out of the property of the principal debtor, if he have any in the county to which the execution is issued subject to execution; and the officer shall return the affidavit with the execution.
MS Code § 87-7-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 87 - Contracts and Contractual Relations|Chapter 7 - Improvements to Real Property|§ 87-7-3. Payment of contractors; penalty for late payment

 All sums due contractors under all construction contracts, except public construction contracts, shall be paid as follows:   Partial, progress or interim payments: all partial, progress or interim payments or monies owed contractors shall be paid when due and payable under the terms of the contract. If they are not paid within thirty (30) calendar days from the day they were due and payable, then they shall bear interest from the due date at the rate of one percent (1%) per month until fully paid.   Final payments: The final payment of all monies owed contractors shall be due and payable:   At the completion of the project or after the work has been substantially completed in accordance with the terms and provisions of the contract;   When the owner beneficially uses or occupies the project except in the case where the project involves renovation or alteration to an existing facility in which the owner maintains beneficial use or occupancy during the course of the project; or   When the project is certified as having been completed by the architect or engineer authorized to make such certification, whichever event shall first occur.   If the contractor is not paid in full within thirty (30) calendar days from the first occurrence of one (1) of the above-mentioned events, then the final payment shall bear interest from the date of such first occurrence at the rate of one percent (1%) per month until fully paid.   In no event shall the final payment due the contractor be made until the consent of the contractor's surety has been obtained in writing and delivered to the proper contracting authority.
MS Code § 87-7-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 87 - Contracts and Contractual Relations|Chapter 7 - Improvements to Real Property|§ 87-7-5. Proportional payment of subcontractors; penalty for late payment

 When a contractor receives any payment from the owner under a construction contract, other than a public construction contract, the contractor shall, upon receipt of that payment, pay each subcontractor and material supplier in proportion to the percentage of work completed by each such subcontractor and material supplier. If for any reason the contractor receives less than the full payment due from the owner, the contractor shall be obligated to disburse on a pro rata basis those funds received, with the contractor, subcontractors and material suppliers each receiving a prorated portion based on the amount due on the payment. If the contractor without reasonable cause fails to make any payment to his subcontractors and material suppliers within fifteen (15) days after the receipt of payment from the owner under the construction contract, the contractor shall pay to his subcontractors and material suppliers, in addition to the payment due them, a penalty in the amount of one-half of one percent (1/2 of 1%) per day of the delinquency, calculated from the expiration of the fifteen-day period until fully paid. The total penalty shall not exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the outstanding balance due. The provisions of this section shall not be applicable to contracts for the construction of single-family dwellings.
MS Code § 87-7-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 87 - Contracts and Contractual Relations|Chapter 7 - Improvements to Real Property|§ 87-7-7. Contractor negotiation of draft payable to contractor and other parties; written signed authorization of co-payees required; penalties

  A contractor who undertakes to negotiate a draft made payable to the contractor and any other party must first obtain an endorsement or other written signed authorization of every co-payee on the draft if the draft is tendered in payment for materials or equipment furnished or labor performed by the owner, laborer, supplier or equipment dealer.   A contractor who negotiates a draft without first obtaining an endorsement or other written signed authorization required under this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) per violation, and shall also be ordered by the court to make full restitution to the owner, laborer, supplier or equipment dealer who is entitled to payment from the proceeds of the draft, as well as reasonable attorney's fees incurred by any party to whom restitution is ordered.
MS Code § 87-7-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 87 - Contracts and Contractual Relations|Chapter 7 - Improvements to Real Property|§ 87-7-9. Contracts, subcontracts or purchase orders with provisions relating to real property improvement that make the contract subject to laws of another state or restrict forum for litigation, arbitration or dispute resolution to another state are void; applicability

  A provision in any contract, subcontract, or purchase order for the improvement of real property in this state, or to provide materials therefor, is void and against public policy if it makes the contract, subcontract, or purchase order subject to the laws of another state, or provides that the exclusive forum for any litigation, arbitration, or other dispute resolution process be located in another state.   The provisions of this section apply only to contracts, agreements and purchase orders:   Entered into on or after July 1, 2018;   Only if at least one (1) of the parties is a Mississippi resident; and   Only if entered into between any two (2) or more of the following persons and no others: the owner of the real property improved or to be improved, a contractor, subcontractor, materialman or design professional. As used in this section, "contractor", "subcontractor", "materialman" and "design professional" shall have the meanings ascribed in Section 85-7-401.     For purposes of this section, "Mississippi resident" means any natural person domiciled in Mississippi or any business entity having a principal place of business in Mississippi.
MS Code § 87-9-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 87 - Contracts and Contractual Relations|Chapter 9 - General Provisions|§ 87-9-1. Manufacturer's taxes required to be paid under contract; alteration of timing; security

  When a contract calls for one (1) party to reimburse the other party for the federal manufacturer's excise tax levied by 26 USCA4081 through 26 USCA4083, whether as a separate item or as part of the price, the party required to make the reimbursement may tender payment for the taxes one (1) business day before the time that the other party is required to remit the taxes to the United States Internal Revenue Service.   If a party elects to make payment as provided in subsection (1) of this section, the other party may demand security for the payment of the taxes in proportion to the amount the taxes represent compared to the security demanded on the contract as a whole. The other party may not change the other payment terms of the contract without a valid business reason other than the exercise of the option as provided in subsection (1) of this section, except to require the payment of the taxes under the option to be made by electronic transfer of funds.   The party exercising the option set out in subsection (1) of this section shall notify the other party in writing of the intent to exercise the payment option and the effective date of the exercise which shall not be earlier than thirty (30) days after the notice of intent is received or the beginning of the next federal tax quarter, whichever is later.   This section shall apply to all contracts now in effect which have no expiration date and are continuing contracts and to all other contracts entered into or renewed from and after July 1, 1994. Specifically, this section shall apply to contracts arising from daily wholesale price offers which are accepted or rejected by the acceptance or rejection of products at the stated prices. Each daily price offering shall be construed to be a new offer and each purchase of product at a given price offer to create a new contract to which this section shall apply. Any contract in force and effect on July 1, 1994, which, by its own terms, will terminate on a subsequent date, shall be governed by the law as it existed before July 1, 1994.   The option provided for in subsection (1) of this section shall not be construed to impair the obligations arising under any contract executed before July 1, 1994. The exercise of an option as set out in subsection (1) of this section shall not relieve the party of the obligation to make the reimbursement as provided for in the contract but shall affect only the timing of when that reimbursement shall be tendered.
MS Code § 89-3-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 3 - Acknowledgments|§ 89-3-1. Acknowledgment or proof necessary to recording

  Except in cases governed by the Uniform Commercial Code, the provisions of Sections 89-5-101 through 89-5-113, or otherwise specially provided for by law, the execution of a written instrument of or concerning the sale of lands, whether the same be made for passing an estate of freehold or inheritance, or for a term of years, or for any other purpose, or any writing conveying personal estate, shall be acknowledged or proved, and the acknowledgment or proof duly certified by an officer competent to take the same in the manner directed by this chapter.   Unless an instrument is acknowledged or proved as provided in subsection (1) of this section, the clerk's office may refuse to admit the instrument to record. However, if an instrument is not so acknowledged or proved but is otherwise admitted to record, then all persons shall be on constructive notice of the contents of the instrument.   The provisions of subsection (2) of this section shall apply to all instruments of record on or after July 1, 2011. However, if the relative priorities of conflicting claims to real property were established before July 1, 2011, then the law applicable to those claims at the time those claims were established shall determine their priority.
MS Code § 89-3-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 3 - Acknowledgments|§ 89-3-3. Acknowledgment and proof

 Every conveyance, contract or agreement proper to be recorded, may be acknowledged or proved before any judge of a United States court, any judge of the supreme court, any judge of the circuit court, or any chancellor, or any judge of the county court, or before any clerk of a court of record or notary public, who shall certify such acknowledgment or proof under the seal of his office, or before any justice of the peace, or police justice, or mayor of any city, town, or village, or clerk of a municipality, or member of the board of supervisors, whether the property conveyed be within his county or not.
MS Code § 89-3-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 3 - Acknowledgments|§ 89-3-5. Acknowledgments before commissioned officers of United States armed forces

 In all cases where a conveyance, contract, agreement or other instrument of writing has heretofore been acknowledged or proved before any commissioned officer in the services of the United States armed forces, such acknowledgment or affidavit is hereby declared to be good, valid and binding to the same extent and with like effect as though such conveyance, contract, agreement, or other instrument of writing had been acknowledged or proved before any officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments in the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 89-3-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 3 - Acknowledgments|§ 89-3-9. Acknowledgment or proof in another state

 If the party who shall execute any conveyance of lands or personal property situated in this state, or if the witnesses thereto reside or be in some other state, territory in the Union, the District of Columbia, or in any possession of the United States, or land over which the United States has sovereign power, then the acknowledgment or proof may be made before and certified by the chief justice of the United States, or an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, or a circuit or district judge of the United States, or any other United States judge, or any judge or justice of the supreme or superior court of any such state, territory, District of Columbia, or possession of the United States, or land over which the United States has sovereign power, or any justice of the peace of such state, territory, District of Columbia, possession, or land over which the United States has sovereign power, whose official character shall be certified under the seal of some court of record in his country, parish or other named official jurisdiction, or before any commissioner residing in such state, territory, District of Columbia, possession, or land over which the United States has sovereign power, who may be appointed by the governor of this state to take acknowledgments and proof of conveyances, or any notary public or a clerk of a court of record having a seal of office in said state, territory, District of Columbia, possession, or land over which the United States has sovereign power, and shall be as good and effectual as if the certificate of acknowledgment or proof had been made by a competent officer in this state.
MS Code § 89-3-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 3 - Acknowledgments|§ 89-3-11. Acknowledgment or proof in another state; construction and application as to prior acknowledgments

 In the construction of this section and Section 89-3-9, the adoption of such sections shall not be construed as meaning that the word "territory" as used in Section 89-3-9 did not include prior to the adoption of these sections the possessions of the United States, or land over which the United States has sovereign power. And any acknowledgment heretofore taken in any possession of the United States, or any land over which the United States has sovereign power, by any of the officials thereof named above in Section 89-3-9 shall be as good and effectual as if made after the adoption of these sections.