16 chapters · 368 sections in this title.
Miss. Code Ann. § 9-3-5 Adjournment, if judges absent; special terms; discontinuances
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If, at the commencement of any regular term, a quorum of the judges shall not be present, it shall be the duty of the clerk to adjourn the court from day to day, by an entry of the fact on the minute-book, for twelve juridical days; and if a quorum of the judges shall not appear …
Miss. Code Ann. § 9-3-6 Recall of retired Supreme Court justices; compensation
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(1) The Supreme Court shall have the authority to request any supreme court justice who has retired from the court, except by defeat at the polls, to return to active service on an emergency basis. (2) It shall be the duty of such recalled judge, who consents to serve, to assist …
Miss. Code Ann. § 9-3-61 General rule-making power vested in Supreme Court
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As a part of the judicial power granted in Article 6, Section 144, of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890, the Supreme Court has the power to prescribe from time to time by general rules the forms of process, writs, pleadings, motions, rules of evidence and the practice and proc…
Miss. Code Ann. § 9-3-63 Limitation on rules
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Rules prescribed by the Supreme Court shall preserve the right of trial by jury as at common law and as declared by Article 3, Section 31 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 and as declared by Amendment VII to the Constitution of the United States.