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MS Code § 11-1-16 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-16. Proceedings in vacation; jurisdiction and authority of judge

  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the judge of any circuit, chancery, county, youth or family court or any other court of record shall, in vacation, and in the same manner as at a regular term, have jurisdiction to hear and determine and make and enter judgments, orders and decrees in all cases, civil or criminal, which are pending in the court and which were triable at the preceding term. Parties and witnesses duly summoned, subpoenaed or bound by recognizance at the preceding term shall be bound to attend without the necessity of additional process. Petit juries may be impaneled in such cases in the same manner as in termtime. All judgments, orders and decrees which the judge may render or make in such cases tried shall be signed by him and thereupon be entered and recorded on the minute book of the court in which the case or matter is pending, and shall have the same force and effect as if made, entered and recorded in termtime. Appeals may be had and taken therefrom when so entered and recorded, as in other cases, in like manner as is provided by law when cases are tried in termtime.   The provisions of this section shall be supplemental and in addition to all other jurisdiction and authority which the judge of any such court may lawfully exercise in vacation or at a special term.
MS Code § 11-1-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-17. Time for rendition of final decree; right of appeal where decree not entered within required time

 All chancellors or judges of the chancery and circuit courts of the state of Mississippi shall render their final decree on any and all matters taken under advisement by such chancellors or judges not later than six (6) months after the date when same are taken under advisement or not later than six (6) months after the date on which the chancellors or courts or judges set as a date for the final brief or memoranda of authority is required to be filed on or as to the cause taken under advisement, whichever is the latest date after the date on which the cause or case is taken under advisement.   In the event a final decree has not been entered within the six months period hereinbefore referred to, then any party to said law suit shall have the right to appeal on the record as otherwise provided the same as if a final decree has been rendered adversely. Said appeal shall be to the supreme court of the state of Mississippi and shall be treated as a preferred case over other cases except election contests.
MS Code § 11-1-18 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-18. Bench trials allowed in certain cases where parties agree

 If the parties to a cause of action agree, any claim filed alleging damages may receive a bench trial which shall be conducted in two hundred seventy (270) days or less after the cause of action has been filed. The cause of action shall be a priority item in the court.
MS Code § 11-1-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-21. Excess remitted

 Where any bond, taken by virtue of any process or order, by miscalculation or mistake, shall be conditioned for the payment of a larger sum of money than by law ought to have been acquired thereby, and a verdict shall have been rendered thereon for the larger sum, or where a verdict shall be rendered for more damages than the plaintiff shall have demanded by his suit, and judgment be rendered accordingly, it shall be lawful for the plaintiff, at the same or any future term of the court, to release in open court any such excess; or he may in vacation release the same, in writing under his hand, and file it among the papers of the cause; and such release shall cure any error growing out of the excess. If the record of any such judgment be removed to an appellate court before the release be made, it shall be competent for the appellee to make such release in the appellate court; and thereupon, the court, after reversing the judgment, shall proceed to give such judgment as the court below ought to have given if the release had been filed therein; but in such case the appellant shall recover the costs paid, and the judgment shall not be entered against the sureties in the appeal bond.
MS Code § 11-1-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-23. Court or judge may require new security

 Each court, and the judge thereof in vacation, and any of the judges, if more than one compose the court, in all cases not especially provided for by statute, may require any bond, recognizance, obligation, or undertaking of any kind in any legal proceeding, of which the court has cognizance, which is shown to be insufficient, to be substituted by a new one, with sufficient sureties; and for a failure to comply with the order of the court or judge in the matter, the court or judge may make such order as may be proper in the case, and may direct such process as may be necessary or proper to enforce it; but notwithstanding the discharge of a supersedeas, injunction, attachment, or other process in consequence of such failure, a judgment or decree may be given on the bond or other obligation, or liability on it may be enforced by action or otherwise, as if it had not been held to be insufficient; but if done in vacation, five days' notice of the time and place of making application for the order shall be given to the opposite party; and in all cases reasonable time shall be allowed for giving new bond, upon such terms as the court or judge may prescribe.
MS Code § 11-1-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-25. Certain bonds not affected by irregularity

 When a bond, recognizance, obligation, or undertaking of any kind shall be executed in any legal proceeding, or for the performance of any public contract, or for the faithful discharge of any duty, it shall inure to the person to whom it is designed by law as a security, and be subject to judgment in his favor, no matter to whom it is made payable, nor what is its amount, nor how it is conditioned; and the persons executing such bond or other undertaking shall be bound thereon and thereby, and shall be liable to judgment or decree on such bond or undertaking as if it were payable and conditioned in all respects as prescribed by law, if such bond or other obligation or undertaking had the effect in such proceeding or matter which a bond or other undertaking payable and conditioned as prescribed by law, would have had; and where any such bond or undertaking is not for any specified sum, it shall bind the parties executing it for the full amount for which any bond or undertaking might have been required in the state of case in which it was given.
MS Code § 11-1-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-27. Bonds payable to the state in certain cases

 Any bond required to be given in any matter, where it is not prescribed to whom it shall be made payable, may be made payable to the state.
MS Code § 11-1-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-29. Proceedings on death of surety on bonds, etc.

 If any surety on a bond, recognizance, or undertaking of any kind given in any legal proceeding, shall be dead at the time for judgment to be rendered or execution to be issued thereon, that shall not prevent judgment from being rendered or execution being issued on such bond, recognizance, or undertaking against parties thereto who are living, but judgment may be rendered against such parties, and judgment nisi may be entered against the personal representatives of parties who are dead, and citation shall be issued to the personal representative to show cause why the judgment should not be made absolute against them, and it shall be made absolute unless, upon the return of citation executed, good cause be shown against it. Execution may be issued on such judgment against the living parties, and after the absolute judgment against the personal representatives, execution may be issued against them to enforce it.
MS Code § 11-1-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-31. Death of parties on bonds having force of judgment

 Where execution may be issued on any bond or undertaking, and some of the parties are dead, it may be issued separately against such as are alive, and citation may be issued to the personal representatives of such as are dead, to show cause against the issuance of execution against them on such bond or undertaking; and on the return of such citation executed, if no sufficient cause be shown against it, execution may be issued against them.
MS Code § 11-1-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-33. Death of parties on bonds having force of judgment; citation in anticipation of judgment

 Citation to the personal representatives of a deceased party may be issued and executed at any time before the time for judgment or execution on such bond, recognizance, or undertaking, requiring the appearance of the representatives before the court having possession or control of the obligation, to submit to judgment or execution thereon; and if issued and executed before the rendition of judgment or issuance of execution against the living parties, judgment may be rendered or execution issued against such personal representatives as well as against parties alive, without delay or further process.
MS Code § 11-1-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-35. Death of parties on bonds having force of judgment; when citation issued and returnable

 Citations referred to in Section 11-1-33 may be issued in vacation or in term time without any order of court therefor, and may be made returnable on the return day for other process, if issued in vacation, or forthwith, if issued during the term of court, and shall be executed five days before judgment or execution against such personal representatives.
MS Code § 11-1-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-37. Certification of transferred causes

 If a cause be transferred by order of the chancery court to the circuit court, or vice versa, the clerk of the court ordering the transfer shall forthwith deposit all the papers in the cause, together with his certificate of the fact of the transfer, in the court to which it was transferred, taking the receipt of the clerk therefor.
MS Code § 11-1-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-39. Proceedings in transferred causes

 When the papers have been deposited in the court to which the cause was transferred, all the parties to the proceeding shall take notice of the fact of the transfer; and the complainant or plaintiff shall file his declaration or bill in the court to which the cause was transferred within thirty days, unless the court, judge, or chancellor shall restrict the time or grant further time; and the defendant shall plead within thirty days thereafter, unless the time, by like means, be restricted or extended. And the cause shall be proceeded with as if it had been originally begun in that court, as of the date on which the cause was originally instituted.
MS Code § 11-1-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-41. Costs in transferred causes

 The complainant or plaintiff in the first court shall pay all the costs in such court; but he may recover the same of the defendant, in the court to which the cause was transferred, at the discretion of the court.
MS Code § 11-1-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-43. Seizure of perishable commodities by legal process

 In order to promote the general welfare, to insure, prepare and expedite movement of commerce through the ports of the State of Mississippi, to avoid any unnecessary delay, to indemnify any damages to shippers through said ports, and to prevent any unnecessary delay, it is provided that any person, firm or corporation who shall hereafter seek in the courts of Mississippi, either the circuit courts or the chancery courts, to obtain writ of replevin, writ of sequestration, writ of seizure, writ of attachment, or other legal processes for the purpose of seizing any cargo or shipment of bananas or other perishable commodity passing through the ports of entry in the State of Mississippi, shall, before such writ is issued, post a good and sufficient bond with sufficient sureties thereon, to be approved by the clerk of the court, wherein such proceedings are instituted. Such bond shall be in a sum double the value of the commodities sought to be attached, replevied, sequestrated, seized or otherwise, payable to the person actually in possession of said commodities, and conditioned that the plaintiff therein shall indemnify and pay to the owner of such property such damages as he or it may sustain by reason of such seizure of said property, that he will pay all handling charges, charges that might accrue on demurrage on the ship, cars, warehouses, docks or railroad facilities and all freight charges, and that he will pay all attorney's fees, court cost and all other damages that might accrue by reason of such illegal seizure thereof.
MS Code § 11-1-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-45. Seizure of perishable commodities by legal process; declaration or bill

 When any affidavit is filed, either in circuit courts or chancery courts in the state of Mississippi, attaching, sequestrating, replevying, or seizing any commodities described in Section 11-1-43, the plaintiff therein shall be required to file, within forty-eight hours, after the writ or affidavit has been issued, a declaration stating cause of action if in the circuit courts, or a bill of complaint if filed in the chancery courts, stating cause of action upon which the seizure is made. Upon filing of said declaration or bill of complaint, an issue shall be joined thereon, and a hearing, in vacation, may be had before the circuit judge or chancellor in the said district where said writ was issued to determine the rights of the said parties to the ownership of the said commodities so seized. Upon hearing of evidence, the court may in vacation render judgment and award possession to the parties entitled and may, if said writ or writs were illegally issued out, award damages on said bond to the parties entitled thereto.
MS Code § 11-1-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-47. Seizure of perishable commodities by legal process; possessor presumed to be owner

 The possessor of any perishable commodities as described in Section 11-1-43, shall be presumed to be the owner of said commodities and, in the event any writ of replevin, writ of seizure, writ of sequestration or writ of attachment shall be issued against such commodities, the possessor thereof shall have the immediate right to possession of said commodities upon his furnishing bond payable to the order of the clerk of the court in a sum equal to the value of the commodities.
MS Code § 11-1-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-49. Seizure of perishable commodities by legal process; process as to nonresident owners

 If the owner of any such cargo or shipment of such perishable commodities be a nonresident of the State of Mississippi and be made a defendant in any action at law or suit in any chancery court, in any court of this state, service of summons or process of such court may be served on such defendant by serving a copy thereof on any steamship agent, ship captain, or other ship's officer, railroad agent, railroad conductor, stevedore or other person having possession or control of such cargo or shipment and by mailing a copy thereof by registered mail addressed to the last known address of such defendant, return receipt requested. When any summons or process against such nonresident owner of such cargo or shipment has been returned so executed, the defendant shall be considered in court and the action or suit shall proceed as though personal service had been had on such defendant, nonresident owner of such cargo or shipment, and all other process or notices necessary to be served in any court proceeding may be served as herein provided.
MS Code § 11-1-52 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-52. Limitations on charges permitted for photocopying patients' records by medical provider; physicians to make reasonable charges for depositions; limitations on charges permitted for execution of patient-requested medical record affidavit by medical provider; medical providers to comply with HIPAA

  Any medical provider or hospital or nursing home or other medical facility shall charge no more than the following amounts to patients or their representatives for photocopying any patient's records: Twenty Dollars ($20.00) for pages one (1) through twenty (20); One Dollar ($1.00) per page for the next eighty (80) pages; Fifty Cents (50¢) per page for all pages thereafter. Ten percent (10%) of the total charge may be added for postage and handling. Fifteen Dollars ($15.00) may be recovered by the medical provider or hospital or nursing home or other medical facility for retrieving medical records in archives at a location off the premises where the facility/office is located.   A physician shall only charge normal, reasonable and customary charges for a deposition related to a patient that the physician is treating or has treated.   Any medical provider, hospital, nursing home or other medical facility shall charge no more than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) for executing a medical record affidavit, when the affidavit is requested by the patient or the patient's representative.   In charging the fees authorized under subsection (1) of this section, the medical provider, hospital, nursing home or other medical facility shall comply with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
MS Code § 11-1-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-53. Harrison County; commencement of civil actions, change of venue and transfer of cases between districts

 In Harrison County, a county having two (2) judicial districts, all civil actions shall be commenced in each of the two (2) judicial districts against defendants as if each district were a separate county, and a change of venue from either of such districts to the other, and from either district to any county of the state, and from any county to either of said districts, shall be made according to the procedure provided for by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure; and the jurisdiction of said courts of said districts shall be the same as if each district were a separate county; provided, however, that any suit or action which may be brought in either of said districts may be commenced by filing a declaration or complaint or other pleading with the clerk of said courts at either Gulfport or Biloxi, and the said clerk shall issue process thereon, returnable to the court of the proper district, and shall deposit the papers in the case in the office of the proper district; and provided further, that no suit or action shall be dismissed because of the fact that the defendant may be sued in the wrong district, but said case or cause shall, upon motion, be transferred for disposition to the proper district and court thereof.
MS Code § 11-1-54 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-54. Assessment for filing frivolous claims

 If a party files any pleading in a civil action which in the opinion of the court is frivolous, the court may impose an assessment of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) against each party and attorney of record for the party filing the pleading. Such assessment shall be in addition to any other assessments, penalties or sanctions authorized by law or otherwise. The proceeds of any assessment imposed under this section shall be paid to the Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project, Inc.
MS Code § 11-1-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-55. Authority to impose condition of additur or remittitur

 The supreme court or any other court of record in a case in which money damages were awarded may overrule a motion for new trial or affirm on direct or cross appeal, upon condition of an additur or remittitur, if the court finds that the damages are excessive or inadequate for the reason that the jury or trier of the facts was influenced by bias, prejudice, or passion, or that the damages awarded were contrary to the overwhelming weight of credible evidence. If such additur or remittitur be not accepted then the court may direct a new trial on damages only. If the additur or remittitur is accepted and the other party perfects a direct appeal, then the party accepting the additur or remittitur shall have the right to cross appeal for the purpose of reversing the action of the court in regard to the additur or remittitur.
MS Code § 11-1-56 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-56. Responsive pleading to precede assignment to a judge

 Civil actions in circuit, chancery and county court shall not be assigned to a judge until at least one (1) defendant has filed a responsive pleading. However, any necessary preliminary matters may be decided by a judge on a separate rotating basis before assignment of the action to a particular judge.
MS Code § 11-1-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure|Chapter 1 - Practice and Procedure Provisions Common to Courts|§ 11-1-57. Additional provisions applicable to all courts

 All things contained in Chapters 7 and 11 of this title, not restricted by their nature or by express provision to particular courts, shall be the rules of decision and proceeding in all courts whatsoever.