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MS Code § 9-5-91 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority, Vacation Matters|§ 9-5-91. Information to be provided to Administrative Office of Courts by chancery clerk in chancery cases in which guardian ad litem is appointed

  In a chancery case in which a guardian ad litem is appointed by the court, it is the duty of the chancery clerk to prepare and forward to the Administrative Office of Courts the information described by subsection (2) of this section not later than the last day of the month following the entry of an order approving any payment to the guardian ad litem.   The clerk shall prepare and forward the following information when filed in a contested case where the guardian ad litem fees exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00):   A copy of any invoice for guardian ad litem fees;   A copy of any order directing payment of guardian ad litem fees; and   A copy of any petition seeking recovery of guardian ad litem fees, as well as any orders concerning payment of guardian ad litem fees, including, but not limited to, orders of contempt.     If an order previously reported under subsection (1) of this section is amended by order of the court, the clerk shall forward the subsequent court order not later than the last day of the month following the entry of the amended order.   The duty of a clerk to prepare and forward information under this section is not affected by:   Any subsequent appeal of the court order;   Any subsequent modification of the court order; or   The expiration of the court order.     This section does not apply to youth court matters.
MS Code § 9-5-93 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority, Vacation Matters|§ 9-5-93. Trial of causes in vacation; power to enter decree prior to adjournment of next succeeding term

 Whenever the chancery court or chancellor has lawfully set any matter in vacation for confirmation or decree, and no contest has been timely filed, if an order or decree determining the same or setting another date therefor be not entered upon such date, the chancellor shall have the power to enter an order or decree on any day prior to the adjournment of the next succeeding term, without further process. Provided, that if the matter be one in which contest might have been entered prior to the date set and such contest be filed before the entry of such order or decree, the same shall be disposed of as if such contest had been timely filed.
MS Code § 9-5-95 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority, Vacation Matters|§ 9-5-95. Court or chancellor may extend time in vacation

 The court or chancellor in vacation shall have power in proper cases for good cause shown to grant a reasonable enlargement of the time for the filing of an answer or answers, or of a demurrer or demurrers, and shall have power in like cases and for like cause shown to set aside decrees pro confesso and thereupon to permit the filing of answer or answers. But no such enlargement of time should be granted where the request therefor is solely for delay or is the result of inexcusable neglect on the part of the defendant or his solicitor.
MS Code § 9-5-97 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority, Vacation Matters|§ 9-5-97. Additional powers of chancellor in vacation

 In the matter of ordering, decreeing and confirming sales of real and personal property of decedents, or of minors, or of persons of unsound mind, and in all other matters testamentary or of administration, in minors' business, matters affecting persons of unsound mind, and in the matter of the removal of disabilities of minority, the chancellors of the several districts of this state are hereby authorized and empowered to do in vacation all things, and to exercise all the powers in such matters that could be done by them in term time; and all laws governing the action of the chancery court in such matters, and the process and procedure therein, shall apply when the chancellor shall act therein in vacation; but before any sale of real estate shall be confirmed by the chancellor in vacation, the parties in interest shall have notice thereof as provided by law in the matter of confirming sales by chancellors in vacation.
MS Code § 9-5-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority, Vacation Matters|§ 9-5-103. Bonds of receivers, assignees, executors may be reduced or cancelled, if excessive or for sufficient cause

 Whenever it shall appear by petition to the chancery court, or chancellor in vacation, that any bond given by an assignee, receiver, executor, administrator, guardian, or trustee is in excess of the value of the estate being administered, and as such is an unnecessary expense to the estate, or that other sufficient cause appears for so doing, the chancery court or chancellor in vacation may, after five days' service of copy of said petition on the surety, cancel the bond or reduce the same to an amount sufficient to protect the estate, or accept a new bond in substitution of an existing one. However, the decree rendered shall not affect the liability upon a bond which accrued prior to its cancellation, reduction or substitution.
MS Code § 9-5-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Jurisdiction, Powers and Authority, Vacation Matters|§ 9-5-105. Expense of chancellor in hearing vacation matter paid equally by parties

 When any chancellor in this state shall, by agreement of the parties, hear any cause or matter in vacation, at any place, other than the place of his residence, all expenses incurred by him in attendance upon said hearing, shall be paid equally by the parties thereto, upon the chancellor's filing an itemized statement thereof, with the clerk of the chancery court of the county in which such matter shall be pending; and when at any such hearing the attendance of the court reporter shall be required his actual expenses shall be likewise paid.
MS Code § 9-5-131 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-131. Bond of clerk

 The clerk of the chancery 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 five percent (5%) 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). Such clerk may be required by the court, or the chancellor in vacation, to give additional bond in any particular case, which shall be a cumulative security, and shall not in any manner affect the liability on his official bond for any matter covered by it. His official bond shall be held to cover all his official acts, and all moneys which may come into his hands according to law or by order of the court or chancellor.
MS Code § 9-5-133 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-133. How clerk of chancery court may appoint deputies

 The clerk of the chancery 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 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.
MS Code § 9-5-135 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-135. Clerk to attend court and keep minutes

  The clerk shall, in person or by deputy, attend all the sessions of the court, and shall keep minute books, in which he shall record, under the directions of the chancellor, all the proceedings of the court; and the minutes of the preceding day shall be read by him each morning of the session in open court, and the last day's proceedings shall be read by him in open court before adjournment, and the minutes must be signed by the chancellor.   The clerk, at his option, may elect to keep the minute books by means of electronic filing or storage or both, as provided in Sections 9-1-51 through 9-1-57 in lieu of or in addition to any paper records.
MS Code § 9-5-137 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-137. Other duties of the clerk

 It shall be the duty of the clerk to preserve and keep all records, files, papers and proceedings belonging to his office, and to record all last wills and testaments which may be probated; all letters testamentary, of administration, and guardianship; all accounts allowed; all inventories, appraisements, and reports duly returned; all instruments which are duly proved, and which by law are required to be recorded in his office, in well-bound books to be kept for that purpose, each class in a separate book or books, or by means of electronic filing or storage or both in addition to or in lieu of any such physical records as provided in Sections 9-1-51 through 9-1-57, as the clerk may elect; all records shall be properly indexed. He shall issue all process which may be required of him by law or by order of the court, or the chancellor in vacation; and shall discharge all other duties which may be required of him by law, or which properly appertain to the duties of his office. The clerk shall be under the direction of the court in termtime, and of the chancellor in vacation.
MS Code § 9-5-139 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-139. Chancery clerk's office at Biloxi

 In Harrison County, a county with two judicial districts, it shall be the duty of the chancery clerk to keep in his office at Biloxi, suitable record books or electronic equipment for the purpose of recording deeds, deeds of trust and other conveyances, instruments and contracts required by law to be recorded, and all deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, contracts, wills and other conveyances and contracts, and all muniments of title, documents and other papers required by law to be filed, enrolled or recorded relating to property situated in said second judicial district, shall be properly filed, enrolled or recorded in the office of said clerk at Biloxi, in books or by means of electronic filing or storage or both as provided in Sections 9-1-51 through 9-1-57, as he may elect, and to be kept for that purpose in his said office at Biloxi. All official bonds shall be recorded by said clerk as required by law in the offices of the said clerk at Gulfport and at Biloxi.
MS Code § 9-5-141 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-141. Acts clerk may perform at any time

 The clerk or his deputy may at any time receive and file all bills, petitions, motions, accounts, inventories, reports, or other papers offered for that purpose, and may issue all process authorized by law and proper in any matter or proceeding. He may also at any time, in termtime or vacation, perform the following functions; issue warrants of appraisement to appraise the personal estate of decedents; allow and register claims against estates being administered in the court of which he is clerk; make all orders and issue all process necessary for the collection and preservation of estates of decedents, minors, and persons of unsound mind; appoint some person to collect and preserve the estate of any decedent in the state in any case provided for; grant letters of administration to the husband or wife, or other person entitled thereto; take the proof of wills, admit wills to probate, in common form, grant letters testamentary, letters of administration with the will annexed, and de bonis non; appoint guardians for minors, persons of unsound mind, and convicts of felony; grant letters of administration; institute suits in cases provided for, and, whenever an appeal shall be taken from the grant of letters testamentary, of administration, or guardianship, appoint some fit person to discharge the duties pending the appeal. He may do all such other acts as are provided by law and by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.
MS Code § 9-5-145 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-145. How proceedings before clerk to be conducted

 In all applications and proceedings before the clerk in vacation or in term time, the same pleadings and evidence and forms shall be observed, and the same process and service and return shall be necessary, as though the proceedings were before the court.
MS Code § 9-5-147 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-147. All acts of clerk subject to approval or disapproval

 All acts, judgments, orders, or decrees made by the clerk in term time or vacation or at rules, shall be subject to the approval or disapproval of the court of which he is clerk, and shall not be final until approved by the court. All such orders and proceedings of the clerk may, by order of the chancellor in vacation, be suspended until a hearing before him in court, and shall be subject to such orders and decrees as the court may make.
MS Code § 9-5-151 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-151. How minutes of proceedings before clerk preserved and approved

 The minutes so kept of proceedings in vacation or in term time shall constitute a record of the office and shall be carefully preserved as such, free from erasure or alteration; and, at the first term thereafter of the court, in the case of minutes in vacation, or in the case of minutes in term time before the clerk at that term or the first term thereafter, shall be examined by the court and if approved, shall thereby become the minutes of the court, as if entered at a term thereof; and all the orders and decrees entered in said minutes in vacation, shall, by such approval of the court, become final and be as valid and effectual as if done by the court when they were done by the clerk.
MS Code § 9-5-153 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-153. How approval of clerk's minutes and orders shown

 The approval by the court of minutes entered in vacation or in term time, and adoption of the orders and decrees made by the clerk, may be evidenced by an order of the court approving such orders and decrees, excepting such as may be specified as not approved. It shall not be necessary to enter on the minutes of the court, in term time, any of said orders or decrees made in vacation or in term time, but the same, as entered in vacation or in term time, shall, by the approval of the court, become the acts of the court.
MS Code § 9-5-155 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-155. Bonds examined by chancellor

 The chancellor shall, at each term of the court, carefully examine all bonds taken by the clerk in vacation, in pursuance of any order of the court, or the requirement of law, in any proceeding in such court, and make such orders in reference thereto as he shall deem necessary for the security of the parties interested therein.
MS Code § 9-5-157 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-157. Register of sureties on bonds to be kept

 The clerk of the chancery court shall either procure a well-bound book, arranged alphabetically and properly ruled, lined and headed to show the name of the principal and surety, name of principal obligor, name of obligee, date of bond, penalty of bond, kind of bond, where recorded if recorded, number of suit in which filed and date of discharge or provide for the electronic filing or storage or both as provided in Sections 9-1-51 through 9-1-57 of this information. In one of these manners he shall abstract each bond, when filed in his office, by entering in such record the name of each principal and surety, under the proper letter, the name of principal obligor, name of obligee, date, penalty, kind of bond, where recorded if recorded, and number of suit in which filed. And when such bond has been discharged, the date thereof shall be entered in said record under the proper heading. The clerk of the chancery court shall also, as soon as said record has been obtained, thus abstract all executor's, administrator's and guardian's bonds in matters at that time pending in the chancery court of his county.
MS Code § 9-5-159 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-159. Abstract of certain decrees furnished circuit clerk

 The clerk of the chancery court shall, within ten days after the expiration of the term at which any decree for money shall be made, which is enforceable by execution against the defendant, furnish an abstract of such decree to the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which such decree is made; and it shall be the duty of the circuit clerk forthwith to enroll the same on the "Judgment Roll" in his office as judgments of the circuit court are required to be enrolled.
MS Code § 9-5-161 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-161. Clerk to make final record of causes

  The clerk shall, within three (3) months after the final termination of each suit involving real estate, record all the pleadings, proofs, exhibits and proceedings therein, or such part thereof as may be required by order of the chancellor, in a book to be kept for that purpose, and to be styled "The Book of Final Records in Chancery." He shall likewise make a final record of all other proceedings or suits, if required by the decree or by order of the chancellor, omitting such portions from the record books as the chancellor may direct. The clerk shall also make final record of all or such portions of a former terminated proceeding or suit as may be requested by any person, upon payment by such person of the cost thereof.   It shall be the duty of the chancery clerk of any county in which there is a county court established, to record in the final record the proceedings of all or any part thereof of proceedings in said court, affecting the title of lands in said county, when requested so to do by any person interested in said lands, and upon the payment of the fee therefor by the person requesting same, and the clerk shall index same in the deed records of the county, and the filing of said proceedings or parts thereof shall be constructive notice from the date of said filing to all persons of said proceedings the same as if they had been decided by the chancery court.   The records required by subsections (1) and (2) of this section may be kept by means of electronic filing or storage or both as provided in Sections 9-1-51 through 9-1-57, as the clerk may elect.
MS Code § 9-5-163 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-163. Custodian of certain records and papers

 The clerk of the chancery court shall be the custodian of all documents, records, books and papers belonging, or in any way appertaining, to the probate court, and of the board of police, formerly existing, except as to such as may be required by law to be kept by the clerk of the circuit court; and, as such custodian, he shall do and perform all acts in relation to such records, books and papers which were heretofore required of, or might lawfully have been done by, the clerk of the said probate court or board of police. All such documents, records, books and papers may be kept by means of electronic filing or storage or both as provided in Sections 9-1-51 through 9-1-57, as the clerk may elect.
MS Code § 9-5-165 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-165. Removal and return of court files and documents in clerk's office

 The clerk shall not suffer any paper filed to be withdrawn but by leave of the chancellor, and then only by retaining a copy to be made at the cost of the party obtaining the leave. Provided, however, that any duly licensed and practicing attorney in good standing in the court may remove court files and related legal papers other than youth court and adoption court files and related papers from the clerk's office by signing therefor himself, or by a designated representative of his law office, on a record to be provided for that purpose. Such files or documents so removed shall be attested to by the clerk or his deputy at the time of removal, and said attorney shall be personally responsible for their safekeeping and return within ten (10) days, or before the first day of the next term of chancery court, whichever comes first and such files or documents shall not be removed from the county where the same are filed except that said files or documents may be taken by said attorney for use in a vacation hearing to such county where the hearing may be held. Failure to return any such court files or related legal papers as provided herein shall constitute contempt of court.
MS Code § 9-5-167 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-167. Newspaper subscribed for and preserved

 The clerk of the chancery court shall subscribe to at least one (1) and not more than two (2) of the newspapers published in his county as the court or chancellor may direct; and in the event no newspaper is published in the county, the clerk shall subscribe to the newspaper in which the publications ordered by the court are usually made. To preserve such newspapers, the clerk shall carefully file the original or microfilm copies thereof in his office, or may keep the same by means of electronic filing or storage or both as provided in Sections 9-1-51 through 9-1-57, as the clerk may elect. Before the clerk may utilize microfilm copies of newspapers presently on file and of those newspapers to be received in the future, the written approval of the court and the board of supervisors must be obtained. The expense of the subscriptions and the expense of the binding of filed newspapers or of the microfilming process shall be paid out of the county treasury. Two (2) or more counties may join together and agree to accomplish the purposes of this section and to share the costs of necessary equipment, subscriptions and labor involved.
MS Code § 9-5-169 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 5 - Chancery Courts|Chancery Clerks|§ 9-5-169. All records and papers subject to inspection

 Except as otherwise provided in Section 25-61-11.2, all of the records and papers of the office of the chancery clerk shall, at all reasonable hours on business days, be subject to the inspection and examination of all citizens; and the clerk shall show to any person inquiring for it where any record or paper in his or her office can be found, and shall allow him or her access to it, and to examine it and make any copy, note, or memorandum he or she desires to make of it.