2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 85 - DEBTOR-CREDITOR RELATIONSHIP
Chapter 7 - Liens.
85-7-141 - Commencement of suit to enforce lien.

§ 85-7-141. Commencement of suit to enforce lien.
 

Any person entitled to and desiring to have the benefit of such lien shall commence his suit in the circuit court of the county in which the property or some part thereof is situated, if the principal of his demand exceeds two hundred dollars, within twelve months next after the time when the money due and claimed by the suit became due and payable, and not after; and the suit shall be commenced by petition, describing with reasonable certainty the property upon which the lien is averred to exist, and setting out the nature of the contract and indebtedness, and the amount thereof; and the plaintiff shall file therewith in all cases, except where the whole work or materials, or both, were furnished in pursuance of a written contract for an aggregate price, a bill of particulars exhibiting the amount and kind of labor performed, and of materials furnished, and the prices at which and times when the same were performed and furnished; and such suits shall be docketed and conducted as other suits in said court, and may be tried at the first term. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 45, art. 7 (3); 1857, ch. 39, art. 6; 1871, § 1609; 1880, § 1384; 1892, § 2702; 1906, § 3062; Hemingway's 1917, § 2422; 1930, § 2262; 1942, § 360; Laws,  1904, ch. 152.