MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 89-5-43. Penalty on clerk for failure of duty.

Any clerk who shall refuse or fail to perform any of the duties herein required shall, for every such refusal or neglect, be liable on his official bond to any party injured for all damages which such party may have sustained by reason of the nonperformance of such duty.

SOURCES: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 42, art. 1 (11); 1857, ch. 36, art. 37; 1871, Sec. 2321; 1880, Sec. 1229; 1892, Sec. 2478; 1906, Sec. 2815; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 2316; 1930, Sec. 2166; 1942, Sec. 887.


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