2015 Mississippi Code
Title 85 - DEBTOR-CREDITOR RELATIONSHIP
Chapter 7 - LIENS
Article 1 - CROPS, ADVANCES, LUMBER, TIMBER, FOALS, CALVES AND WATER CRAFT
SUITS TO ENFORCE LIENS ON CROPS, ADVANCES, LUMBER, TIMBER, FOALS, CALVES AND WATER CRAFT
§ 85-7-39 - Writ; form

MS Code § 85-7-39 (2015) What's This?

"The State of Mississippi.

"To any lawful officer of county:

"We command you forthwith to take into your possession and dispose of,

according to law, bales of cotton and bushels of corn, now in the

possession of , believed to be at , in your county, as it is said, or

so much thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy the claim of , who

asserts an interest therein to the extent of one-half thereof, which he avers

is of the value of dollars [or who claims a lien thereon for

dollars, alleged to be due him for his wages as a laborer in producing said

articles, or whatever the claim may be, as set forth in the affidavit], for

his labor in producing said articles, and summon the said [and any others

shown by the affidavit to have an adverse claim to said articles] to appear

before the undersigned, a justice of the peace of said county, at , on

, the day of A. D. , at o'clock, .M., to answer

said claim, and have this writ there then.

"Witness my hand, the day of , A. D. .

" , J. P."

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