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2013 Mississippi Code
Title 9 - COURTS
Chapter 1 - PROVISIONS COMMON TO COURTS
GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 9-1-11 - Judge not to sit when interested or related
MS Code § 9-1-11 (2013) What's This?
The judge of a court shall not preside on the trial of any cause where the parties, or either of them, shall be connected with him by affinity or consanguinity, or where he may be interested in the same, or wherein he may have been of counsel, except by the consent of the judge and of the parties.
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