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Mississippi Code 1972 (2023)
Title 25 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES; PUBLIC RECORDS (§§ 25-1-1 — 25-65-33)
Chapter 55 - LOST RECORDS (§§ 25-55-1 — 25-55-31)
Section 25-55-25 - Duplicate for lost or destroyed original
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MS Code § 25-55-25 (2023)
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- (1) A duplicate for a lost or destroyed bond shall not issue until there shall have been filed with the officer an affidavit and a bond. The affidavit must be that of some credible person knowing the facts, and it must set forth the ownership of such bond, the number of unpaid coupons, if any, thereto attached, and the description thereof, embracing, if can be, its number, to whom and for what issued, its date, and when mature. The bond must be that of a person to whom the duplicate is to be issued, with at least two (2) sufficient sureties, in a sum equal to double the amount of the lost, destroyed or stolen bond, payable to the state, conditioned to pay all damages which the state, county, city, town, or levee board, as the case may be, may sustain if compelled to pay such bond or coupons, together with all costs and expenses and lawyers' fees, if any, incurred in enforcing the bond.
- (2) A duplicate for a lost or destroyed warrant shall not issue until there shall have been filed with the officer an affidavit. The affidavit must be that of some credible person knowing the facts, and it must set forth the ownership of such warrant and the description thereof, embracing, if can be, its number, to whom and for what issued, and its date.
Codes, 1892, § 2802; 1906, § 3182; Hemingway's 1917, § 2523; 1930, § 2343; 1942, § 773; Laws, 2004, ch. 312, § 1, eff. 7/1/2004.
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