MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 11-25-7. The warrant.

The clerk of the justice court before whom the complaint is made shall thereupon issue a warrant to the following effect:

"The State of Mississippi

"To the Sheriff of ---- County:

"WHEREAS, AB hath made complaint on oath (or affirmation), before me, the clerk of the justice court for the said county, that CD hath unlawfully turned him out of possession (or unlawfully withholds from him the possession) of certain land (here describe it), lying and being in the said county, and hath prayed the possession thereof, this is therefore to command you to summon the said CD to appear at ---- (which shall be at the usual place of holding the justice court of the justice court judge to whom the case is assigned), on the ---- day of ----, before said justice court judge, to answer to the complaint, and have then there this warrant.

"Witness my hand, this ---- day of ----.
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EF, Clerk of the Justice Court "

SOURCES: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 56, art. 7(6); 1857, ch. 42, art. 5; 1871, Sec. 1584; 1880, Sec. 2647; 1892, Sec. 4463; 1906, Sec. 5042; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 3314; 1930, Sec. 3459; 1942, Sec. 1036. Laws, 1981, ch. 471, Sec. 32; 1982, ch. 423, Sec. 17, eff from and after January 1, 1984, or, with respect to a given county, from and after such earlier date as the county appoints a justice court clerk pursuant to Sec. 9-11-27 (3).


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