MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 11-35-7. Form of the writ of garnishment-when issued by the sheriff.

When the sheriff issues a writ of garnishment in executing an attachment, it may be in the following form:

"THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.

"To ----, garnishee:

"Whereas, the undersigned holds an attachment writ against ----, as defendant at the suit of ----, as plaintiff, and it appearing that you should be summoned as garnishee:

"We therefore command you to appear in the ---- court, at ----, on the ---- day of ----, A. D. ----, being the return day of said attachment, then and there in said attachment suit to answer (here copy in full every particular that a garnishee is required to answer). Herein fail not, under penalty of having judgment rendered against you for the whole amount of plaintiff's demand.

"Witness my signature, this ---- day of ----, A. D. ----.
"________________"

The original must be returned to the court properly indorsed with the mode of service and the defendant served, as in other cases.

SOURCES: Codes, 1892, Sec. 2133; 1906, Sec. 2340; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 1935; 1930, Sec. 1841; 1942, Sec. 2786.


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