Mississippi Code 1972 (2023)
Title 95 - TORTS (§§ 95-1-1 — 95-15-1)
Chapter 3 - NUISANCES (§§ 95-3-1 — 95-3-29)
Section 95-3-23 - Lease annulled for unlawful use

Universal Citation:
MS Code § 95-3-23 (2023)
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If a tenant or occupant of a building or tenement under a lawful title uses such place as a nuisance as herein defined, such use shall annul and make void the lease or other title under which he holds and, without any act of the owner, shall cause the right of possession to revert and vest in the owner, and the owner may without process of law make immediate entry upon the premises.

Codes, Hemingway's 1921 Supp, § 2790k; 1930, § 2879; 1942, § 1071; Laws, 1918, ch. 193.


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