Mississippi § 91-7-207 - Failure to give bond.
Full text of Mississippi Mississippi Code of 1972 Annotated § 91-7-207 — Failure to give bond., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 91-7-207. Failure to give bond.
If an executor or administrator who has been ordered to sell land of a decedent fail to give the bond required, the court may, after five days’ notice to the executor or administrator, direct a master or special commissioner to make the sale, who shall give bond with sureties, as the executor or administrator was required to do, and make sale and report it and, after a confirmation of the sale, convey the land as the executor or administrator might have done under the decree. The master or commissioner shall be allowed by the court such commissions as would accrue from the sale to the executor or administrator, or such compensation as the court may order.
Source: official Mississippi text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 91-7-207 ("Failure to give bond.") 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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