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Home » US Law » 2020 Mississippi Code » Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments » Chapter 13 - Bills, Notes and Other Writings

§ 75-13-1. Assignment

Any note, or other writing which may be assigned under any of the provisions of Chapter 3 of the Uniform Commercial Code shall, when so assigned in the manner therein provided, carry with the assignment for the benefit of the assignee all liens and other securities securing the same, and the holder may fully enforce […]

§ 75-13-11. Holidays; execution on, not void

Nothing in any law of the State of Mississippi, shall in any manner whatsoever, affect the validity, or render void or voidable, the payment, certification or acceptance of a check, or other negotiable instrument, or any other transaction by a bank in this state, because done or performed on any legal holiday, except Sunday, provided […]

§ 75-13-3. Suits on indorsed bills and notes

An action shall not be maintained on a bill of exchange or promissory note which has been indorsed against any one secondarily liable thereon, without joining in the action all persons residing in this state who are liable before such person on the bill or note. The action shall be brought in the county where […]

§ 75-13-5. Discontinuance

The plaintiff may discontinue his suit, before verdict, against any of the indorsers, or parties secondarily liable, on payment of the costs that have accrued from joining such party in the suit.

§ 75-13-7. Duties of the clerks and sheriffs with executions

The clerk or justice of the peace shall indorse on all executions issued on judgments rendered in suits on promissory notes and bills of exchange the names of the makers, drawers, acceptors, and indorsers, so as to designate the order in which they are liable. The sheriff or other officer shall make the money on […]

§ 75-13-9. Remedy of party paying execution

A party to such execution, who shall pay it, shall, as against any other party to it who is liable to him for the sum paid or any part of it, be entitled to the benefit of all the provisions for sureties in the chapter entitled “Principal and Surety,” being Chapter 5 of Title 87, […]