2017 Mississippi Code
Title 89 - Real and Personal Property
Chapter 1 - Land and Conveyances
In General
§ 89-1-67. Conveyance by administrator, executor, guardian, master, or commissioner
A conveyance by an administrator, executor, guardian, master, or commissioner, who may sell land under a decree of court may be in the following form, and shall be effective to convey all that could or would be conveyed in such case by any form of conveyance, viz.:
- "By virtue of the authority conferred on me, administrator of the estate of
____, deceased, by the decree of the chancery court of ____ county, rendered
on the ____ day of ____ confirming a sale made on the ____ day of ____, in
pursuance of a decree of said court rendered on the ____ day of ____, I, as
administrator of said estate, in consideration of ____ dollars, convey to
____, the purchaser thereof, the following land, to wit: [here describe the
land].
"Witness my signature, the ____ day of ____, A. D. ____
____"
- "By virtue of the authority conferred on me, administrator of the estate of
The description of the character of the maker of the conveyance will vary the form according to the fact. And if a conveyance be made in pursuance of a power conferred by a will, and not by virtue of a decree, the will should be referred to as a source of power, instead of a decree.
