Mississippi § 11-17-35 - Title of complainant must be deraigned—and decrees, in certain cases, recorded as deeds.
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§ 11-17-35. Title of complainant must be deraigned—and decrees, in certain cases, recorded as deeds.
In bills to confirm title to real estate, and to cancel and remove clouds therefrom, the complainant must set forth in plain and concise language the deraignment of his title. If title has passed out of the sovereign more than seventy-five (75) years prior to the filing of the bill, then the deraignment shall be sufficient if it show title out of the sovereign and a deraignment of title for not less than sixty (60) years prior to the filing of the bill. A mere statement therein that complainant is the real owner of the land shall be insufficient, unless good and valid reason be given why he does not deraign his title. In all such cases, final decrees in the complainant’s favor shall be recorded in the record of deeds, and shall be indexed as if a conveyance of the land from the defendant or each of them, if more than one, to the complainant or complainants, if more than one.
Source: official Mississippi text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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