MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 91-5-13. Creditor competent witness to will.

Any creditor shall be a competent subscribing witness to a last will and testament; but any special provision in favor of such creditor in the will, either by admitting the debt or by providing for its payment or by giving it a preference, shall be void, and such claim shall stand as though the provision had not been made.

SOURCES: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 49, art. 1 (44); 1857, ch. 60, art. 46; 1871, Sec. 1102; 1880, Sec. 1974; 1892, Sec. 1827; 1906, Sec. 2002; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 1667; 1930, Sec. 3555; 1942, Sec. 662.


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