Mississippi § 99-23-25 - Sureties may surrender their principal.
Full text of Mississippi Mississippi Code of 1972 Annotated § 99-23-25 — Sureties may surrender their principal., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 99-23-25. Sureties may surrender their principal.
The sureties of any person bound to keep the peace, may, at any time, surrender their principal to the sheriff of the county in which the principal was bound, under the same rules governing such surrender in criminal cases; and the person surrendered may give a new bond, to be approved by the sheriff, in the same sum and with like sureties as the former, for the residue of the time for which he was bound to keep the peace, and thereupon he shall be discharged.
Source: official Mississippi text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 99-23-25 ("Sureties may surrender their principal.") 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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