2017 Mississippi Code
Title 89 - Real and Personal Property
Chapter 1 - Land and Conveyances
In General
§ 89-1-65. Sheriff's conveyance
A conveyance of land sold by a sheriff under execution may be in the following form, and shall be sufficient to convey all of the title of the defendant in the execution, which any conveyance such officer might make would in such case convey; and a conveyance by a constable in like form, the proper changes being made, shall have the like effect in case of sale made by him, viz.:
"By virtue of an execution issued by the clerk of the circuit court of ____
county, on the ____ day of ____, A.D. ____, returnable before said court on
the ____ Monday of ____, A.D. ____, to enforce the judgment of said court,
rendered on the ____ day of ____, A.D. ____, in favor of ____ against ____,
for ____ dollars, and costs, I, as sheriff of ____ county, have this day,
according to law, sold the following lands, to wit: [here describe the land];
when ____ became the best bidder therefor at the sum of ____ dollars, and he
having paid said sum of money, I now convey said land to him.
"Witness my hand, the ____, A. D. ____
____ Sheriff."