2013 Mississippi Code
Title 9 - COURTS
Chapter 1 - PROVISIONS COMMON TO COURTS
GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 9-1-5 - Extension into term in other county of same district


MS Code § 9-1-5 (2013) What's This?

In order to utilize the services of a judge temporarily assigned to chancery or circuit court in a county, the chancery or circuit court judge is authorized to extend a term of his court in one (1) county in a district, even if it overlaps into a term of that court in another county in the same district, so long as the term of court in the county into which the extension runs shall not be pretermitted. The Nineteenth Chancery Court District and the Eighteenth Circuit Court District are hereby excepted from the provisions of this section.

The word "county" wherever used herein shall be construed to mean "judicial district" in counties having two (2) judicial districts.

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