2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 13 - EVIDENCE, PROCESS AND JURIES
Chapter 1 - Evidence.
13-1-131 - Land-office certificates.
§ 13-1-131. Land-office certificates.
All certificates issued in pursuance of any act of Congress by any board of commissioners, register of any land office, or any other person authorized to issue such certificate, founded on any warrant, order of survey, entry, grant, confirmation, donation, preemption, or purchase from the United States of any land in this state, shall vest the full legal title to such land in the person to whom such certificate is granted, his heirs or assigns, so far as to enable the holder thereof to maintain an action thereon.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 60, art. 11 (2); 1857, ch. 61, art. 229; 1871, § 808; 1880, § 1623; 1892, § 1782; 1906, § 1959; Hemingway's 1917, § 1619; 1930, § 1582; 1942, § 1744; Laws, 1991, ch. 573, § 89, eff from and after July 1, 1991.
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