This chapter is applicable to every statute unless its general object, or the context of language construed, or other provisions of law indicate that a different meaning or application was intended from that required by this chapter.
The term “felony,” when used in any statute, shall mean any violation of law punished with death or confinement in the penitentiary.
All substances, chemicals and compounds commonly known as commercial fertilizers, and all manures, whether natural or artificial products, except animal excrement, cotton seed, and unmixed cotton seed products.
The term “food,” when used in any statute, shall embrace every article used as food or drink by man.
Words in the masculine gender shall embrace a female as well as a male, unless a contrary intention may be manifest.
The term “infamous crime,” when used in any statute, shall mean offenses punished with death or confinement in the penitentiary.
The term “infant,” when used in any statute, shall include any person, male or female, under twenty-one years of age.
The term “insurrection,” when used in any statute, means an armed assembly of persons having intent to resist or subvert lawful authority.
The term “intellectual disability,” when used in any statute, means a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, originates before the age of eighteen (18) years, and refers to persons who were, are and continue to be diagnosed with mental retardation.
The term “land,” when used in any statute, shall include all corporeal hereditaments whatever, and any interest therein, whether an estate for years or a different estate.
Wherever the phrase “minimum education program,” “minimum program” or “minimum foundation program” shall appear in the laws of this state, it shall be construed to mean the “Mississippi Adequate Education Program” created under Section 37-151-1 et seq.
The term “minor,” when used in any statute, shall include any person, male or female, under twenty-one years of age.
The term “month,” when used in any statute, means a calendar month, unless a contrary intention be expressed.
The term “bond,” when used in any statute, shall embrace every written undertaking for the payment of money or acknowledgment of being bound for money, conditioned to be void on the performance of any duty or the occurrence of any thing therein expressed and subscribed, and delivered by the party making it, to take effect […]
Except as otherwise provided in Section 27-109-1, all rivers, creeks and bayous in this state, twenty-five (25) miles in length, and having sufficient depth and width of water for thirty (30) consecutive days in the year to float a steamboat with carrying capacity of two hundred (200) bales of cotton, are navigable waters of this […]
Words used in the singular number only, either as descriptive of persons or things, shall extend to and embrace the plural number; and words used in the plural number shall extend to and embrace the singular number, except where a contrary intention is manifest.
The term “oath,” when used in any statute, shall include the word “affirmation,” in all cases where by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath.
The term “offense,” when used in any statute, shall mean any violation of law liable to punishment by criminal prosecution.
The term “person,” when used in any statute, shall apply to artificial as well as natural persons; and when used to designate the party whose property may be the subject of offense, shall include the United States, this state, or any other state, territory, or country, and any county, city, town or village which may […]
The terms “capital case,” “capital cases,” “capital offense,” “capital offenses,” and “capital crime” when used in any statute shall denote criminal cases, offenses and crimes punishable by death or imprisonment for life in the state penitentiary. The term “capital murder” when used in any statute shall denote criminal cases, offenses and crimes punishable by death, […]
