2017 Mississippi Code
Title 11 - Civil Practice and Procedure
Chapter 23 - Trial of Right of Property
§ 11-23-19. Laws applicable in case of death

Universal Citation: MS Code § 11-23-19 (2017)

All the provisions of law in reference to the death of either party, and the revival of the cause, in personal actions, and the death of any of the obligors, in a bond given in the progress of a cause, and the proceedings thereon before or after judgment, shall apply to proceedings under Sections 11-23-7 through 11-23-29; but in case the claimant shall die before judgment, and there be no representative of his estate, judgment shall be entered against the sureties on his bond for the property, or the value thereof, as assessed by the sheriff, or to be found by the verdict of a jury impaneled to inquire of the same, at the option of the plaintiff, with interest on such value from the date of the claimant's bond.

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