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2017 Mississippi Code
Title 93 - Domestic Relations
Chapter 19 - Removal of Disability of Minority
§ 93-19-13. Persons eighteen years of age or older competent to contract in matters affecting personal property
Universal Citation: MS Code § 93-19-13 (2017)
All persons eighteen (18) years of age or older, if not otherwise disqualified, or prohibited by law, shall have the capacity to enter into binding contractual relationships affecting personal property. Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect any contracts entered into prior to July 1, 1976.
In any legal action founded on a contract entered into by a person eighteen (18) years of age or older, the said person may sue in his own name as an adult and be sued in his own name as an adult and be served with process as an adult.
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