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2013 Mississippi Code
Title 11 - CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 45 - SUITS BY AND AGAINST THE STATE OR ITS POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS
§ 11-45-17 - County may sue and be sued


MS Code § 11-45-17 (2013) What's This?

Any county may sue and be sued by its name, and suits against the county shall be instituted in any court having jurisdiction of the amount sitting at the county site; but suit shall not be brought by the county without the authority of the board of supervisors, except as otherwise provided by law.

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