As Amended
SEC. 89-1-45. Mortgage for purchase money of land.
Every mortgage given at the time of the purchase of real estate to secure the payment of the purchase money, shall be entitled to a preference over all judgments and other debts of the mortgagor, which preference shall extend only to the land purchased.
SOURCES: Codes, 1857, ch. 36, art. 13; 1871, Sec. 2296; 1880, Sec. 1205; 1892, Sec. 2450; 1906, Sec. 2780; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 2284; 1930, Sec. 2129; 1942, Sec. 850.