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Home » US Law » 2020 Mississippi Code » Title 89 - Real and Personal Property » Chapter 7 - Landlord and Tenant

§ 89-7-1. Goods not to be removed until rent paid

No goods or chattels, lying or being in or upon any messuage, lands or tenements, leased or rented for life, years, at will, or otherwise, shall at any time be liable to be taken by virtue of any writ of execution, or other process whatever, unless the party so taking the same shall, before the […]

§ 89-7-101. The avowry

The avowry shall be substantially to the following effect, to wit: “Thomas East v. Circuit court, County. William West. “And now comes the defendant, William West, and for plea to plaintiff’s declaration he says: True it is that he caused the property described in the plaintiff’s declaration to be seized; but the seizure was not […]

§ 89-7-103. The replication

If the avowry be for rent and supplies, or either, claimed to be due and in arrears, the replication by the plaintiff shall be substantially in the following form, viz.: “Thomas East v. Circuit court, County. William West. “And the plaintiff, for replication, says he was not indebted to the defendant as stated in his […]

§ 89-7-105. Replication in case rent not due

If the avowry be a claim for rent or supplies, or both, to become due, the plaintiff shall reply either that he was not indebted, as in the form last above, or he may reply in substance as in the following form, viz.: “Thomas East v. Circuit court, County. William West. “And the plaintiff, for […]

§ 89-7-107. Replevin; when triable, and judgment upon default

Suits by the tenant or a third person replevying the property, shall be triable at the first term of the court; and in either case, if the party replevying shall make default or fail to prosecute his suit, like judgment shall be entered against him and the sureties on the bond as upon an issue […]

§ 89-7-109. Suit revived in case of death of party

If either party to such replevin or other action growing out of an attachment for rent or supplies, die pending the same, the suit may be revived for or against the representatives of the deceased party as other actions that survive may be revived.

§ 89-7-11. Rent assets in hands of personal representative

If a person lease his land and die, the rent to accrue for the land during the year of his death shall be payable to the personal representative of the decedent, who shall have the same remedy therefor as the decedent would have had if he had lived.

§ 89-7-111. Judgment if trial results against lessor

If the trial of suit result in favor of the party replevying the property, the judgment shall be that he retain it, and recover of the party in whose name or right such distress was sued out damages for the wrongful suing out of the attachment. Thereupon scire facias may be issued to the sureties […]

§ 89-7-115. Tenant’s remedy against landlord

If any distress or seizure and sale be made under color of law for rent or supplies pretended to be due and in arrear, where, in truth, no rent or sum for supplies is due or owing to the party causing the distress or seizure to be made, then the owner of the agricultural products […]

§ 89-7-117. Property of strangers not liable

Property, except agricultural products on which there is a lien for rent, found or being on any demised premises, not belonging to the tenant or to some person bound or liable for the rent of such premises, shall not be liable to be distrained for rent; but if the tenant or other person liable for […]

§ 89-7-119. Replevin of property by strangers

When any person other than the tenant shall claim to be the owner of any property distrained or seized for rent or supplies, he may make affidavit that said property is his, and not the property of the tenant, and not held to the use of the tenant in any manner whatever, and is not […]

§ 89-7-121. Form of affidavit by third person

The affidavit by a third person claiming property distrained or seized for rent or supplies may be in the following form, to wit: “State of Mississippi, County. “Before me, , a justice of the peace of the said county, makes oath that certain property to wit: eight bales of cotton [or whatever the property may […]

§ 89-7-123. Proceedings to be as in replevin by tenant

The affidavit may be made before the officer having the property, and he shall make return of it and of the bond, if any, and the attachment papers, and summon the other party, as required in case of a replevin by the tenant; and the claimant replevying the property shall prosecute his suit against the […]

§ 89-7-125. Burden of proof

On the trial of the issue between the landlord and such claimant, the burden of proof to show ownership in the property shall be on the claimant.

§ 89-7-13. Executor or administrator may sue or distrain

The executor or administrator of a person to whom rent is due and not paid at the time of his death may have an action for all such arrearages against the tenant or tenants who ought to have paid the rent so being behind in the lifetime of their testator or intestate, or against the […]

§ 89-7-15. Rights of assignees of lessor

The grantees or assignees, and their heirs, personal representatives and assignees, of any lands let to lease, or of the reversion thereof, may have and enjoy the same advantages against the lessees, their personal representatives and assigns, by entry for the non-payment of rent, or for doing of waste or suffering any forfeiture, and may […]

§ 89-7-17. Grants of rents, good without attornment

Grants of rents or reversions or remainders shall be good and effectual without attornment of the tenants; but a tenant who has paid the rent to the grantor before notice of the grant shall not suffer any damage thereby.

§ 89-7-21. Rights of lessees against assignees of lessor

All lessees of lands for a term of years, life or lives, their executors, administrators, or assigns, may have like action and advantage against all and every person or persons, their heirs and assigns, which have any gift or grant of the reversion of said lands, so leased, or any parcel thereof, for any condition, […]