Mississippi Code — 91
Browse 471 sections in division 91 of the Mississippi code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 91-1-1. What law to govern.
- § 91-1-3. Descent of land.
- § 91-1-5. Half-bloods.
- § 91-1-7. Descent of property as between husband and wife.
- § 91-1-9. Descent of trust estates.
- § 91-1-11. Personal estate to descend as real estate.
- § 91-1-13. Estate of testator not disposed of by will to descend.
- § 91-1-15. Descent among illegitimates; definitions.
- § 91-1-17. Advancement to be brought into hotchpot.
- § 91-1-19. Descent of exempt property.
- § 91-1-21. Exempt property liable for debt of decedent.
- § 91-1-23. Exempt property not to be partitioned in certain cases.
- § 91-1-25. Person who has killed another not to inherit from him.
- § 91-1-27. How title to property acquired by descent may be made.
- § 91-1-29. Heirs to be cited to appear.
- § 91-1-31. Judgment as to descent of property cannot be assailed collaterally except for fraud.
- § 91-3-1. How chapter cited.
- § 91-3-3. Construction.
- § 91-3-5. Disposition of property in absence of evidence of survivorship.
- § 91-3-7. Beneficiaries of another person’s disposition of property.
- § 91-3-9. Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety.
- § 91-3-11. Insurance policies or contracts.
- § 91-3-13. Chapter not to apply to persons dying before effective date.
- § 91-3-15. Provision in will, etc., rendering chapter inapplicable.
- § 91-5-1. Who may execute; signature; attestation.
- § 91-5-3. Revocations.
- § 91-5-5. Children born after making of the will.
- § 91-5-7. Bequests not to lapse in certain cases.
- § 91-5-9. Devise to witness void.
- § 91-5-11. Devise or bequest to trustee.
- § 91-5-13. Creditor competent witness to will.
- § 91-5-15. Nuncupative wills.
- § 91-5-17. Parties in interest to nuncupative will to be cited.
- § 91-5-19. Nuncupative will not to be proven after six months unless reduced to writing.
- § 91-5-21. Members of armed forces and mariners at sea excepted.
- § 91-5-23. Provision for husband or wife to be in bar.
- § 91-5-25. Right of spouse to renounce will; form of renunciation; right to intestate share.
- § 91-5-27. Effect of no provision for husband or wife.
- § 91-5-29. Effect of wife or husband having separate estate.
- § 91-5-31. Repealed.
- § 91-5-33. Person who kills another not to take under his will.
- § 91-5-35. Will devising real property admitted to probate as muniment of title only; rights of interested parties unaffected.
- § 91-7-1. Venue of proof of wills.
- § 91-7-3. By whom presented.
- § 91-7-5. Production of will compelled.
- § 91-7-7. Proof of due execution of will.
- § 91-7-9. Affidavit of subscribing witness receivable.
- § 91-7-10. Affidavits may be used to authenticate holographic wills or codicils.
- § 91-7-11. Testimony of absent witness.
- § 91-7-13. Testimony on probating will reduced to writing.
- § 91-7-15. Will executed by person in armed forces — additional manner of proof.
- § 91-7-17. Rejection of will not binding.
- § 91-7-19. All interested may be made parties.
- § 91-7-21. Caveat against probate may be filed.
- § 91-7-23. Validity contested within two years.
- § 91-7-25. Necessary parties to contest.
- § 91-7-27. Probate of will prima facie evidence.
- § 91-7-29. Trial of issue devisavit vel non.
- § 91-7-31. Wills recorded.
- § 91-7-33. Foreign wills recorded.
- § 91-7-35. Grant of letters testamentary.
- § 91-7-37. Eighteen the age of majority for executors and administrators.
- § 91-7-39. Administration with will annexed.
- § 91-7-41. Oath and bond of executor or administrator with will annexed.
- § 91-7-43. Executor as residuary legatee.
- § 91-7-45. When bond not required.
- § 91-7-47. Rights and duties of executor or administrator with will annexed.
- § 91-7-49. Directions of will to be followed.
- § 91-7-51. Effect of receipt for money by executor or trustee.
- § 91-7-53. Temporary administrator.
- § 91-7-55. Estate to be appraised.
- § 91-7-57. Powers of temporary administrator.
- § 91-7-59. Compensation of temporary administrator.
- § 91-7-61. Administrator to institute suits.
- § 91-7-63. Grant of administration.
- § 91-7-65. Persons disqualified to administer.
- § 91-7-67. Oath and bond of administrator.
- § 91-7-68. Administrator of estate of intestate under legal disability.
- § 91-7-69. Administration de bonis non.
- § 91-7-71. Rights of administrator de bonis non.
- § 91-7-73. County administrator.
- § 91-7-75. Bond and oath of county administrator.
- § 91-7-77. Additional bond may be required.
- § 91-7-79. Letters granted to county administrator.
- § 91-7-81. Accounts to be filed when office vacated.
- § 91-7-83. Sheriff administrator in certain cases.
- § 91-7-85. Removal and surrender of trust.
- § 91-7-87. Administration revoked by proof of will and grant of letters testamentary.
- § 91-7-89. Letters of certain nonresidents revoked.
- § 91-7-90. Order of abatement for shares of distributees of deceased's property.
- § 91-7-91. Assets defined; unsecured creditors to give notice.
- § 91-7-93. Inventory of money and property owned by decedent at time of death.
- § 91-7-95. Supplementary inventory or appraisement.
- § 91-7-97. Adoption of collector’s inventory or new inventory.
- § 91-7-99. All to join in returning inventory.
- § 91-7-101. Debt from executor or administrator inventoried.
- § 91-7-103. Summary proceeding for discovery of assets.
- § 91-7-105. Failure to return inventory.
- § 91-7-107. Perfect inventory may be compelled.
- § 91-7-109. Inventory and appraisement by qualified disinterested persons.
- § 91-7-111. Repealed.
- § 91-7-113. Repealed.
- § 91-7-115. Repealed.
- § 91-7-117. Executor or administrator to set apart exempt property.
- § 91-7-119-91-7-133. Repealed.
- § 91-7-135. Court or chancellor to set apart one year’s support for family.
- § 91-7-137. Repealed.
- § 91-7-139. Repealed.
- § 91-7-141. Court or chancellor may apportion year’s allowance.
- § 91-7-143. Minor distributee or legatee maintained.
- § 91-7-145. Notice to creditors of estate.
- § 91-7-147. Newspaper notices dispensed with in small estates.
- § 91-7-149. Probate of claims.
- § 91-7-151. Claims to be registered in ninety days or barred; amendment of affidavits.
- § 91-7-153. Registration of claim stops limitation.
- § 91-7-155. Executor to pay probated, registered debts.
- § 91-7-157. Executor to pay taxes.
- § 91-7-159. Agreement with commissioner of internal revenue to exercise discretion in distributing assets of estate or trust.
- § 91-7-161. Creditors whose claims are not due must accept payment.
- § 91-7-163. Claim of executor or administrator to be treated same as other claims.
- § 91-7-165. Claims may be contested.
- § 91-7-167. Creditor having lien failing to present claim.
- § 91-7-169. Growing crop.
- § 91-7-171. Farm may be cultivated or rented.
- § 91-7-173. Executor or administrator may continue business for limited time.
- § 91-7-175. Sale of perishable property.
- § 91-7-177. Private sale of personal property.
- § 91-7-179. Sale for appraised value without order.
- § 91-7-181. Certain property may be sold without being present.
- § 91-7-183. Public sale of personal property.
- § 91-7-185. Report of sale and proceedings.
- § 91-7-187. Sale of land in preference to personalty.
- § 91-7-189. Sale to pay the purchase-money of land.
- § 91-7-191. Sale of land upon insufficiency of personalty.
- § 91-7-193. Waste of personal estate no bar.
- § 91-7-195. Creditors may apply for sale of property.
- § 91-7-197. Interested parties to be cited upon petition to sell property.
- § 91-7-199. Hearing and decree.
- § 91-7-201. Mistake in description of land may be corrected.
- § 91-7-203. Bond to pay debts may be given and decree for sale not made.
- § 91-7-205. Bond required in decree for sale of lands; waiver of bond.
- § 91-7-207. Failure to give bond.
- § 91-7-209. Purchase-money a charge on property.
- § 91-7-211. Estoppel from receipt of purchase-money.
- § 91-7-213. Borrowing money to pay claims.
- § 91-7-215. Procedure for borrowing.
- § 91-7-217. Overplus and contribution.
- § 91-7-219. Procedure in vacation.
- § 91-7-221. Executor or administrator to make title to land.
- § 91-7-223. Executors and administrators may make deeds of conveyance.
- § 91-7-225. Lands may be leased to pay debts.
- § 91-7-227. Executors and administrators to renew obligation and encumbrances of estate.
- § 91-7-229. Claims may be sold or compromised.
- § 91-7-231. Actions which accrue in administration.
- § 91-7-233. What actions survive to executor or administrator.
- § 91-7-235. What actions survive against executor or administrator.
- § 91-7-237. Death of party not to abate suit in certain cases.
- § 91-7-239. Executor or administrator not to be sued for ninety days.
- § 91-7-241. Suit by or against administrator not to abate.
- § 91-7-243. Not bound to plead specially.
- § 91-7-245. Any one interested may defend suit.
- § 91-7-247. Actions which accrue between administrators.
- § 91-7-249. Executor in his own wrong.
- § 91-7-251. Liability of executor or administrator of an executor de son tort.
- § 91-7-253. Fiduciary not to use funds; investment by fiduciary bank in time certificates of deposit.
- § 91-7-255. Fiduciary not to transfer negotiable papers.
- § 91-7-257. Repealed.
- § 91-7-259. Foreign executor or administrator may sue.
- § 91-7-261. Procedures for insolvent estates.
- § 91-7-263. Creditor may institute insolvency proceedings.
- § 91-7-265. Decree of insolvency after all property sold.
- § 91-7-267. Publication and claims presented in insolvent estate.
- § 91-7-269. Filing, examination, and adjudication of claims in insolvent estate.
- § 91-7-271. Distribution of assets in insolvent estate.
- § 91-7-273. Suits not to abate on insolvency.
- § 91-7-275. Suit not allowed after decree of insolvency.
- § 91-7-277. Annual accounts.
- § 91-7-279. Repealed.
- § 91-7-281. Attorney’s fees allowable.
- § 91-7-283. Defaulters to be listed and cited.
- § 91-7-285. Process for derelict fiduciary.
- § 91-7-287. Publication of process for defaulter.
- § 91-7-289. Hearing for derelict fiduciary.
- § 91-7-291. Final accounts.
- § 91-7-293. Names of interested parties to be stated.
- § 91-7-295. Summons or publication for final account.
- § 91-7-297. Hearing and adjudication of final account.
- § 91-7-299. Allowance to executor or administrator.
- § 91-7-301. Personal estate sold for division.
- § 91-7-303. Distribution compelled.
- § 91-7-305. Distribution of assets in kind to surviving spouse.
- § 91-7-307. Delaying settlement.
- § 91-7-309. Accounts may be opened and falsified in two years.
- § 91-7-311. Bonds to be recorded; suits thereon.
- § 91-7-313. Suit for devastavit.
- § 91-7-315. New bond of executors and administrators may be required.
- § 91-7-317. Relief of sureties and new bond.
- § 91-7-319. Executors may receive credit for costs of bond in surety company.
- § 91-7-321. Custodian appointed for distributive share.
- § 91-7-322. Payment of indebtedness or delivery of personal property of decedent to decedent’s successor; affidavit of successor.
- § 91-7-323. Wages due deceased employee.
- § 91-7-325. Suit to recover wages if not paid within sixty days.
- § 91-7-327. Duty of chancery clerk when wages paid to him.
- § 91-7-329. Not to apply to estates administered upon.
- § 91-7-331. “Administrator” defined.
- § 91-8-101. Short title.
- § 91-8-102. Scope.
- § 91-8-103. Definitions.
- § 91-8-104. Knowledge.
- § 91-8-105. Default and mandatory rules.
- § 91-8-106. Common law of trusts; principles of equity.
- § 91-8-107. Governing law.
- § 91-8-108. Principal place of administration.
- § 91-8-109. Methods and waiver of notice.
- § 91-8-110. Others treated as qualified beneficiaries.
- § 91-8-111. Nonjudicial settlement agreements.
- § 91-8-112. Rules of construction.
- § 91-8-201. Role of court in administration of trust.
- § 91-8-202. Jurisdiction over trustee and beneficiary.
- § 91-8-203. Subject-matter jurisdiction.
- § 91-8-204. Venue.
- § 91-8-205. Judicial accountings and settlements.
- § 91-8-301. Representation: basic effect.
- § 91-8-302. Representation by holder of power of appointment.
- § 91-8-303. Representation by fiduciaries and parents.
- § 91-8-304. Representation by person having substantially identical interest.
- § 91-8-305. Appointment of representative.
- § 91-8-401. Methods of creating trust.
- § 91-8-402. Requirements for creation.
- § 91-8-403. Trusts created in other jurisdictions.
- § 91-8-404. Trust purposes.
- § 91-8-405. Charitable purposes; enforcement.
- § 91-8-406. Creation of trust induced by fraud, duress, or undue influence.
- § 91-8-407. Evidence of oral trust; trust in land.
- § 91-8-408. Trust for care of animal.
- § 91-8-409. Noncharitable trust without ascertainable beneficiary.
- § 91-8-410. Modification or termination of trust; proceedings for approval or disapproval.
- § 91-8-411. Modification or termination of noncharitable irrevocable trust by consent.
- § 91-8-412. Modification or termination because of unanticipated circumstances or inability to administer trust effectively.
- § 91-8-413. Cy pres.
- § 91-8-414. Modification or termination of uneconomic trust.
- § 91-8-415. Reformation to correct mistakes.
- § 91-8-416. Modification to achieve settlor’s tax objectives.
- § 91-8-417. Combination and division of trusts.
- § 91-8-601. Capacity of settlor of revocable trust.
- § 91-8-602. Revocation or amendment of revocable trust.
- § 91-8-603. Settlor’s powers; powers of withdrawal.
- § 91-8-604. Limitation on action contesting validity of revocable trust; distribution of trust property.
- § 91-8-701. Accepting or declining trusteeship.
- § 91-8-702. Trustee’s bond.
- § 91-8-703. Cotrustees.
- § 91-8-704. Vacancy in trusteeship; appointment of successor.
- § 91-8-705. Resignation of trustee.
- § 91-8-706. Removal of trustee.
- § 91-8-707. Delivery of property by former trustee.
- § 91-8-708. Compensation of trustee, trust advisor and trust protector.
- § 91-8-709. Reimbursement of expenses.
- § 91-8-710. Directed trusts.
- § 91-8-711. Directed trusts; accepting or declining fiduciary appointment.
- § 91-8-712. Directed trusts; fiduciary’s bond.
- § 91-8-713. Vacancy; directed trusts.
- § 91-8-714. Directed trusts; resignation of fiduciary.
- § 91-8-715. Directed trusts; removal of fiduciary.
- § 91-8-801. Duty to administer trust.
- § 91-8-802. Duty of loyalty.
- § 91-8-803. Impartiality.
- § 91-8-804. Prudent administration.
- § 91-8-805. Costs of administration.
- § 91-8-806. Trustee’s skills.
- § 91-8-807. Delegation by trustee.
- § 91-8-808. Powers to direct.
- § 91-8-809. Control and protection of trust property.
- § 91-8-810. Recordkeeping and identification of trust property.
- § 91-8-811. Enforcement and defense of claims.
- § 91-8-812. Collecting trust property.
- § 91-8-813. Duty to inform and report.
- § 91-8-814. Exercise of powers over discretionary and other interests; tax savings.
- § 91-8-815. General powers of trustee.
- § 91-8-816. Specific powers of trustee.
- § 91-8-817. Distribution upon termination.
- § 91-8-901. Prudent Investor Act incorporated by reference.
- § 91-8-1001. Remedies for breach of trust.
- § 91-8-1002. Damages for breach of trust.
- § 91-8-1003. Damages in absence of breach.
- § 91-8-1004. Attorney’s fees and costs.
- § 91-8-1005. Limitation of action against trustee by a beneficiary, a trustee, trust advisor or trust protector.
- § 91-8-1006. Reliance on trust instrument.
- § 91-8-1007. Event affecting administration or distribution.
- § 91-8-1008. Exculpation of trustee.
- § 91-8-1009. Beneficiary’s consent, release, or ratification.
- § 91-8-1010. Limitation on personal liability of trustee.
- § 91-8-1011. Interest as general partner.
- § 91-8-1012. Protection of person dealing with trustee.
- § 91-8-1013. Certification of trust.
- § 91-8-1014. Enforcement of no-contest, in terrorem or forfeiture provisions.
- § 91-8-1101. Uniformity of application and construction.
- § 91-8-1102. Electronic records and signatures.
- § 91-8-1103. Severability clause.
- § 91-8-1107. Alter ego.
- § 91-8-1108. Dominion and control over a trust.