Mississippi § 31-19-27 - Doubtful claims defined.
Full text of Mississippi Mississippi Code of 1972 Annotated § 31-19-27 — Doubtful claims defined., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 31-19-27. Doubtful claims defined.
A doubtful claim of the state, or of the county, city, town, village, or levee board is one for which judgment has been rendered and for the collection of which the ordinary process of law has been ineffectual; debts due by drainage districts or other taxing districts or sinking funds to counties under the Rehabilitation Act of 1928, being Chapter 88 of the Laws of 1928, and Chapter 16 of the Acts of the Special Session of 1931; those debts due counties by drainage districts, which the reconstruction finance corporation has heretofore refused to refinance; debts due for sixteenth section township school fund loans made to churches, where the board of supervisors finds that the value of the security given therefor is insufficient or inadequate to pay or satisfy the principal and interest of said loan, and when the church repays the principal of said loan; and debts due by counties and townships to drainage districts for drainage district assessments or taxes levied and assessed upon sixteenth section lands.
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What does Mississippi Code of 1972 Annotated § 31-19-27 cover?
Section 31-19-27 ("Doubtful claims defined.") is part of the Mississippi Code of 1972 Annotated, the codified statutory law of Mississippi. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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