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2015 Mississippi Code
Title 11 - CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 53 - COSTS
§ 11-53-25 - Stale cases dismissed at cost of plaintiff

MS Code § 11-53-25 (2015) What's This?

The clerk of any court shall move the court to dismiss any cause pending therein in which no step has been taken for the two terms preceding; and the court shall, unless good cause be shown to the contrary, dismiss the same at the costs of the plaintiff or complainant.

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