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Mississippi Code 1972 (2023)
Title 9 - COURTS (§§ 9-1-1 — 9-27-21)
Chapter 11 - JUSTICE COURTS (§§ 9-11-1 — 9-11-35)
Section 9-11-25 - Delivery of books, records and papers of justice court judge leaving office or dying to justice court clerk
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MS Code § 9-11-25 (2023)
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Every justice court judge whose term of office expires, or who resigns, removes from the county, or otherwise goes out of office, and the legal representative and next of kin of every justice court judge who dies, shall, within ten (10) days thereafter, deliver his case record, with all process and papers and books of statutes relating to his office, to the clerk of the justice court of the county.
Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 50, art. 10 (3); 1857, ch. 58, art. 15; 1871, § 1341; 1880, §§ 2232-2236; 1892, § 2432; 1906, § 2761; Hemingway's 1917, § 2260; 1930, § 2109; 1942, § 1843; Laws, 1981, ch. 471, § 22; Laws, 1982, ch. 423, § 28; Laws, 1991, ch. 594, § 1, eff. 4/15/1991.
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