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Mississippi Chancery Courts are courts of equity. They also have jurisdiction over family law, sanity hearings, wills, and constitutional law. In counties with no County Court, they have jurisdiction over juveniles. Typically, trials are heard without a jury, but juries are permitted. There are 20 districts. [1]
In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy that apply in the state where the deceased resided at the time of their death.
Mississippi College Law Review. 12 (1): 293– 335. Rowland, Dunbar, ed. (1904). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Jackson: Mississippi Department of Archives and History. OCLC 777030828. Somerville, Thomas H. (1899). "A Sketch of the Supreme Court of Mississippi". The Green Bag. Vol. XI. pp. 503– 515.
No child can be forced to account for his or her advancement, but instead he will be excluded from a share in the intestate's estate. The usual judicial view was that any considerable sum of money paid to a child at that child's request is an advancement; thus payment of a son's debts of honour has been held to be an advancement.
The rule against perpetuities serves a number of purposes. First, English courts have long recognized that allowing owners to attach long-lasting contingencies to their property harms the ability of future generations to freely buy and sell the property, since few people would be willing to buy property that had unresolved issues regarding its ownership hanging over it.
Mississippi 2nd 1 Deborah McDonald January 7, 2019: Mississippi 2 Latrice A. Westbrooks January 3, 2017: Detroit: 3rd 1 Jack L. Wilson, Presiding Judge: July 1, 2015: Harvard: 2 John H. Emfinger March 3, 2021: Mississippi College: 4th 1 Virginia C. Carlton, Presiding Judge: January 2007: Mississippi 2 David Neil McCarty January 7, 2019 ...
Samuel Stillman Boyd (May 27, 1807 – May 21, 1867), often referred to as S. S. Boyd or Judge Boyd, was a prominent attorney in early 19th-century Mississippi and one of the Natchez nabobs who stood at the apex of antebellum Mississippi society. He also served briefly as a judge (possibly for just one special case), invested in cotton ...
Daniel Kirkwood "Kirk" Fordice Jr. (/ f ɔːr d aɪ s /; February 10, 1934 – September 7, 2004) was an American politician and businessman who served as the 61st governor of Mississippi from 1992 to 2000.