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MS Code § 9-7-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Judges, Districts, and Terms of Court|§ 9-7-39. Fourteenth district; composition; number of judges

  The Fourteenth Circuit Court District is composed of the following counties:   Lincoln County;   Pike County; and   Walthall County.       There shall be two (2) judges for the Fourteenth Circuit Court District.   The two (2) judgeships shall be separate and distinct and denominated for purposes of appointment and election only as "Place One" and "Place Two."
MS Code § 9-7-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Judges, Districts, and Terms of Court|§ 9-7-41. Fifteenth district; composition

 The Fifteenth Circuit Court District is composed of the following counties:   Jefferson Davis County;   Lamar County;   Lawrence County;   Marion County; and   Pearl River County.
MS Code § 9-7-42 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Judges, Districts, and Terms of Court|§ 9-7-42. Fifteenth district; number of judges

  There shall be three (3) judges for the Fifteenth Circuit Court District.   The three (3) judgeships shall be separate and distinct and denominated for purposes of appointment and election only as "Place One," "Place Two," and "Place Three." The judge to fill Place One must be a resident of Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Lawrence or Marion County. The judge to fill Place Two may be a resident of any county in the district. The judge to fill Place Three must be a resident of Pearl River County.
MS Code § 9-7-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Judges, Districts, and Terms of Court|§ 9-7-43. Sixteenth district; composition

 The Sixteenth Circuit Court District is composed of the following counties:   Clay County;   Lowndes County;   Noxubee County; and   Oktibbeha County.
MS Code § 9-7-44 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Judges, Districts, and Terms of Court|§ 9-7-44. Sixteenth district; number of judges

  There shall be three (3) judges for the Sixteenth Circuit Court District.   The three (3) judgeships shall be separate and distinct and denominated for purposes of appointment and election only as "Place One," "Place Two" and "Place Three." The judge to fill Place One must be a resident of Lowndes County. The judge to fill Place Two must be a resident of Oktibbeha County. The judge to fill Place Three must be a resident of either Clay or Noxubee County. Election of the three (3) offices of judge shall be by election to be held in every county within the Sixteenth Circuit Court District.
MS Code § 9-7-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Judges, Districts, and Terms of Court|§ 9-7-45. Seventeenth district; composition; divisions

 The Seventeenth Circuit Court District shall be divided into two (2) subdistricts as follows:   Subdistrict 17-1 shall be composed of DeSoto County; and   Subdistrict 17-2 shall be composed of Panola County, Tallahatchie County, Tate County and Yalobusha County.
MS Code § 9-7-46 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Judges, Districts, and Terms of Court|§ 9-7-46. Seventeenth district; number and election of judges

  There shall be four (4) circuit judges for the Seventeenth Circuit Court District.   For the purpose of appointment and election, the four (4)judge ships shall be separate and distinct, and one (1) judge shall be elected from Subdistrict 17-1, two (2) judges shall be elected from Subdistrict 17-2, and one (1) judge shall be elected from every county in the district. The two (2) judgeships in Subdistrict 17-2 shall be denominated as "Place One" and "Place Two," the judgeship in Subdistrict 17-1 shall be denominated as "Place Three," and the at-large judgeship shall be denominated as "Place Four."
MS Code § 9-7-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Judges, Districts, and Terms of Court|§ 9-7-47. Eighteenth district; composition

 The Eighteenth Circuit Court District shall be Jones County.
MS Code § 9-7-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Judges, Districts, and Terms of Court|§ 9-7-49. Nineteenth district; composition; local contributions for support of court

  The Nineteenth Circuit Court District is composed of the following counties:   George County;   Greene County; and   Jackson County.     The local contribution required for the maintenance of the Nineteenth Circuit Court District shall not exceed, as to George and Greene Counties, the amount of their present local contribution in their present respective circuit court districts, and any excess shall be paid by Jackson County.
MS Code § 9-7-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Judges, Districts, and Terms of Court|§ 9-7-51. Nineteenth district; number and election of judges; divisions

  There shall be three (3) judges for the Nineteenth Circuit Court District. The three (3) judgeships shall be separate and distinct and denominated for purposes of appointment and election only as "Place One," "Place Two" and "Place Three."   The senior judge of the Nineteenth Circuit Court District may divide the court of any county within the district into civil, criminal and appellate court divisions as a matter of convenience by the entry of an order upon the minutes of the court.
MS Code § 9-7-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Judges, Districts, and Terms of Court|§ 9-7-53. Twentieth district; composition

 The Twentieth Circuit Court District is composed of the following counties:   Madison County; and   Rankin County.
MS Code § 9-7-54 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Judges, Districts, and Terms of Court|§ 9-7-54. Twentieth district; number of judges

  There shall be three (3) judges for the Twentieth Circuit Court District.   The three (3) judgeships shall be separate and distinct and denominated for purposes of appointment and election only as "Place One," "Place Two" and "Place Three." The judge to fill Place One must reside in Rankin County, the judge to fill Place Two must reside in Madison County, and the judge to fill Place Three may reside in either Madison or Rankin County.
MS Code § 9-7-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Judges, Districts, and Terms of Court|§ 9-7-55. Twenty-first district; composition

 The Twenty-first Circuit Court District is composed of the following counties:   Holmes County;   Humphreys County; and   Yazoo County.
MS Code § 9-7-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Judges, Districts, and Terms of Court|§ 9-7-57. Twenty-second district; composition

 The Twenty-second Circuit Court District is composed of the following counties:   Claiborne County;   Copiah County; and   Jefferson County.
MS Code § 9-7-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority|§ 9-7-81. Jurisdiction; general enumeration of subjects

 The circuit court shall have original jurisdiction in all actions when the principal of the amount in controversy exceeds two hundred dollars, and of all other actions and causes, matters and things arising under the constitution and laws of this state which are not exclusively cognizable in some other court, and such appellate jurisdiction as prescribed by law. Such court shall have power to hear and determine all prosecutions in the name of the state for treason, felonies, crimes, and misdemeanors, except such as may be exclusively cognizable before some other court; and said court shall have all the powers belonging to a court of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery, and may do and perform all other acts properly pertaining to a circuit court of law.
MS Code § 9-7-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority|§ 9-7-83. Jurisdiction of cases transferred or remanded to it

 The circuit court shall have jurisdiction of all cases transferred to it by the chancery court or remanded to it by the supreme court.
MS Code § 9-7-85 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority|§ 9-7-85. Jurisdiction; suit for sum below

 If a suit shall be brought in the circuit court for a sum of less than the court can take cognizance of, or if a greater sum than is due shall be demanded, on purpose to confer jurisdiction, the complaint shall be involuntarily dismissed pursuant to the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure; and if the plaintiff, in any case, shall not recover more than the minimal jurisdictional amount, he shall not recover any costs of the defendant unless the judge shall be of the opinion, and so enter on the record, that the plaintiff had reasonable ground to expect to recover more than the minimal jurisdictional amount, or unless the court shall have jurisdiction of the cause, without respect to the amount in controversy.
MS Code § 9-7-87 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority|§ 9-7-87. Special terms; jurisdiction; juries for

 At a special term the circuit court may impanel grand and petit juries, and shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine all civil and criminal business, in the same manner as at a regular term.   Parties and witnesses shall be bound to attend; and witnesses duly subpoenaed or bound by recognizance, shall be subject to the same penalties for failure to attend as if such failure had occurred at a regular term. On receiving the order for a special term, if it be held because of a failure of a regular term, the proper officers shall open the envelopes containing the names of the jurors for such regular term, if it has not been done, and the venire facias shall issue and the jurors be summoned as required by law; but if there be no such envelopes, the jurors shall be drawn as provided in case of a failure of the judge to draw them. The judge may direct whether jurors shall be summoned and how they shall be drawn.
MS Code § 9-7-89 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority|§ 9-7-89. Motions against officers for money collected

 The circuit court shall hear and determine all motions against attorneys at law, sheriffs, coroners, and other officers, for money collected or received as such, and not paid over on demand to the party entitled to the same, and may give judgment and award execution thereon.
MS Code § 9-7-91 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority|§ 9-7-91. Judgments and executions

 The circuit court may render judgments according to the principles and usages of law, in all cases cognizable before it, and award executions, directed to the sheriff or other proper officer of any county. The court, upon legal conviction of a person of a crime or misdemeanor, shall proceed to judgment and award execution thereon as the law directs.
MS Code § 9-7-93 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority|§ 9-7-93. Time may be allotted by court for civil and criminal business separately

 In the county where it may be necessary, in the discretion of the court or judge, the court may designate a certain portion of the time allotted for the holding of court exclusively to the civil business and a certain portion of the time exclusively to the hearing of criminal business, and in cases where the court or judge does this, the court or judge shall so allot the time as to meet the necessities of the criminal and civil business, and, in all cases where it is practical to do so, the court or judge shall separate the civil and criminal business, so that certain time shall be devoted to each.
MS Code § 9-7-95 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority|§ 9-7-95. Transfer for trial of cases filed in county courts in nineteenth district

 Cases filed in the county courts of any county in the nineteenth circuit court district, with the exception of equity and youth court cases, at the discretion of the county court judge, and with the consent of the circuit judge, may be transferred for trial to the circuit courts of such district, and the judgment rendered thereon on any such transferred case in the circuit court shall be a final judgment and shall be appealable in the same manner as now provided by law for appeals from final judgments rendered by circuit courts.
MS Code § 9-7-121 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Circuit Clerks|§ 9-7-121. Clerk; oath of office and bond

 The clerk of the circuit court, before he enters upon the duties of the office, shall take the oath of office, and give bond, with sufficient surety, to be payable, conditioned and approved as provided by law, in a penalty equal to three percent (3%) of the sum of all the state and county taxes shown by the assessment rolls and the levies to have been collectible in the county for the year immediately preceding the commencement of the term of office for such clerk. However, such bond shall not exceed the amount of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00). And he may be required to give additional bond from time to time, for the faithful application of all moneys coming into his hands by law or order of the court; but such additional bonds shall be cumulative security, and the original bond shall likewise cover all moneys coming into the hands of the clerk by law or order of the court.
MS Code § 9-7-123 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Circuit Clerks|§ 9-7-123. Appointment of deputy clerks; oath; bond

  The clerk of the circuit court shall have power, with the approbation of the court, or of the judge in vacation, to appoint one or more deputies, who shall take the oath of office and may give bond, and who thereupon shall have power to do and perform all the acts and duties which their principal may lawfully do; such approval, when given by the judge in vacation, shall be in writing, and shall be entered on the minutes of the court at the next term.   Each deputy clerk of the circuit court, before he enters upon the duties of the appointment, shall take the oath of office, and shall give bond, with sufficient surety, to be payable, conditioned and approved as provided by law, in a penalty equal to three percent (3%) of the sum of all the state and county taxes shown by the assessment rolls and the levies to have been collectible in the county for the year immediately preceding the commencement of the term of office for the circuit clerk. However, the amount of such bond shall not be less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) nor more than One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00). The bond shall cover all monies coming into the hands of the deputy clerk by law or order of the court. The board of supervisors, in its discretion, may pay the bond on behalf of the deputy clerk.
MS Code § 9-7-124 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Circuit Clerks|§ 9-7-124. Appointment of temporary deputies to assist circuit clerk of county

  The board of supervisors of any county, in its discretion, may authorize the circuit clerk of the county to appoint one or more temporary full-time or temporary part-time deputies for the purpose of assisting the circuit clerk in the performance of duties relating to certification of signatures on initiative petitions as provided by Section 23-17-21.   The salary of any temporary deputy clerk appointed under the provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall be established by the board of supervisors and paid out of any available funds in the county general fund.
MS Code § 9-7-125 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Circuit Clerks|§ 9-7-125. Deputy circuit clerks; appointment and payment in certain counties

  The circuit clerk of every county wherein is partially located a national forest and wherein U. S. Highway 49 and Mississippi Highway 26 intersect may appoint a full-time or part-time deputy to insure the efficient operation of the office of circuit clerk of said county.   The boards of supervisors in said counties are authorized to pay to said circuit clerk a sum not to exceed three hundred dollars ($300.00) per month for employment of such deputy.
MS Code § 9-7-126 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Circuit Clerks|§ 9-7-126. Additional remuneration to circuit court clerks for salaries of deputy circuit clerks

  There shall be allowed out of the county treasury from the general county funds, or any other available funds payable monthly by the board of supervisors of the county, not less than the following amounts for the purposes of defraying the salaries of deputy circuit clerks:  Class 1 and 2 counties not less than Four Hundred Fifty Dollars ($450.00) per month;   Class 3 and 4 counties not less than Three Hundred Fifty Dollars ($350.00) per month;   Class 5, 6, 7 and 8 counties not less than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) per month.   The above and foregoing allowances shall be for the purposes of defraying the salaries of deputy circuit clerks provided such allowance, and upon written request of the circuit clerk, shall be paid directly to the deputy circuit clerk designated by him, in the absence of which request, the allowance shall be paid monthly to the circuit clerk. Deputy circuit clerks employed under authority of this section shall be deemed employees of the county. The clerk shall select and supervise their public duties.    This section shall not apply to any county having a county court except that in any county in which U.S. Highway 49 and Mississippi Highway 6 intersect, any county in which U.S. Highway 61 and Mississippi Highway 4 intersect, any county having a population in excess of fifty-seven thousand (57,000) and which is traversed by the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway or whose county seat is within twenty (20) miles of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, any county bordering the State of Tennessee and the Mississippi River, any county in which U.S. Highway 61 and U.S. Highway 82 intersect, any county in which U.S. Highway 61 and Mississippi Highway 8 intersect, any county in which U.S. Highway 82 and U.S. Highway 49E intersect, any county in which U.S. Highway 49 and Mississippi Highway 16 intersect and which is traversed by Interstate Highway 55, and any county in which Highway 589 and Highway 98 intersect, the provisions of this section shall be discretionary with the respective board of supervisors.
MS Code § 9-7-127 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Circuit Clerks|§ 9-7-127. Final record to be made

 Within three (3) months after the final determination of any suit, or if an appeal shall have been taken, then within three (3) months after receiving a certificate of the affirmance of the judgment, the clerk shall enter in a well-bound book, to be kept for the purpose, a full and complete record of all the proceedings in the suit, if the title to the real estate be involved or affected, and if not, only on the order of the court. On failure to make a final record required by law or the order of the court, the clerk may be fined, as for a contempt, Twenty Dollars ($20.00) for each failure; and he shall also be liable in damages to any party injured. A final record shall not be made of any suit without a judgment on the merits. Such record may be kept on computer as provided in Section 9-7-171.
MS Code § 9-7-128 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Circuit Clerks|§ 9-7-128. Disposal and destruction of certain case files and loose records; electronic storage of certain files, records and documents

  Where there is no requirement for a permanent record to be made, the clerk, upon order of the court, may dispose of and destroy all case files of the circuit or county court which have been in existence for ten (10) years or which have been reduced to judgment and that judgment satisfied and cancelled. The clerk may also dispose of and destroy any loose records not required by law to be kept as permanent records after a period of ten (10) years. No records, however, may be destroyed without the approval of the Director of the Department of Archives and History.   The files, records and other documents described herein may, upon order of the court in accordance with the provisions of this section, be electronically stored for convenience and efficiency in storage. The electronic storage of documents, for purposes of this section, shall have the same meaning as set forth in Section 9-1-51. In those counties electing to store files, records and documents by means of electronic storage, the following described case files shall be electronically stored after the time periods described below have elapsed:   Cases in county criminal or civil court which have been dismissed or in which a judgment has been entered at least three (3) years prior to the date upon which they are electronically stored; and   Cases in circuit, criminal or civil court which have been dismissed or in which a judgment has been entered at least five (5) years prior to the date upon which they are electronically stored.     Nothing in this section shall serve as authority to destroy any docket book, minute book, issue docket, subpoena docket, witness docket book, execution docket book, voter registration book, marriage record book, trial order, abstract of judgment, judgment roll, criminal file where an indictment was returned and the defendant convicted if the file is not at least twenty (20) years old, habeas corpus docket, preliminary hearing docket or Court of Appeals or Supreme Court appeals docket.
MS Code § 9-7-129 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Circuit Clerks|§ 9-7-129. List of allowances against county treasury

 Within ten days after each term of circuit court, it shall be the duty of the clerk to deliver to the clerk of the board of supervisors a certified list of allowances made by the court at such term, payable out of the county treasury, specifying the amount, to whom allowed, and on what account. For any failure to deliver such list, the clerk of the circuit court may be punished by the court as for a contempt.
MS Code § 9-7-131 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Circuit Clerks|§ 9-7-131. Jury fee book

 The clerk of the circuit court shall keep a book to be called the "jury book," in which he shall enter the time of issuing all certificates to jurors, the amount thereof, and to whom issued. Such book may be kept by means of electronic filing or storage or both as provided in Sections 9-1-51 through 9-1-57, or otherwise, as the clerk may elect. Within ten (10) days after each term of the court, he shall file in the office of the clerk of the board of supervisors of his county a certified copy of such entries, for the information of the board. For any failure in this respect, the clerk of the circuit court may be fined and imprisoned by the court as for a contempt.
MS Code § 9-7-133 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 7 - Circuit Courts|Circuit Clerks|§ 9-7-133. Jury tax imposed and how collected

 A jury tax of three dollars is imposed on each original suit in the circuit court in which a plea is filed, and on every issue therein tried separately by a jury, and a tax of two dollars on each case transferred or appealed thereto, to constitute a fund for the payment of jurors, and to be collected by the clerk or sheriff as costs. The clerk shall be liable on his official bond for any failure to charge, receive, or issue execution for the jury tax; and the sheriff shall likewise be liable for a failure to collect or to pay the same to the county treasurer; and they may be fined as for a contempt therefor not more than one hundred dollars.