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2014 Mississippi Code
Title 95 - TORTS
Chapter 1 - LIBEL AND SLANDER
§ 95-1-1 - Certain words actionable

MS Code § 95-1-1 (2014) What's This?

All words which, from their usual construction and common acceptation, are considered as insults, and calculated to lead to a breach of the peace, shall be actionable; and a plea, exception or demurrer shall not be sustained to preclude a jury from passing thereon, who are the sole judges of the damages sustained; but this shall not deprive the courts of the power to grant new trials, as in other cases.

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