General Provisions

  1. Law
  2. Mississippi Code
  3. Real and Personal Property
  4. Recording of Instruments
  5. General Provisions

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Section
89-5-1

Recording instruments; conveyances, acknowledgment, priority

Section
89-5-3

Conveyances, mortgages; void if not lodged for record

Section
89-5-5

Priority of all instruments, and notice thereof controlled by date of filing for record; take effect, when

Section
89-5-7

Written contracts in relation to land recordable

Section
89-5-8

Affidavits relating to identification, marital status, heirship, etc. of party to instrument affecting real estate titles recordable; affidavit of scrivener's error recordable; admissibility

Section
89-5-9

Copies of certain records may be recorded

Section
89-5-11

Patents issued by United States or this state recordable

Section
89-5-13

Instruments of conveyance recorded for seven and ten years; acknowledgment valid

Section
89-5-15

Transfer of record; debt to be noted on record

Section
89-5-17

Assignments of indebtedness to be marked on record

Section
89-5-19

When a lien appears by the record to be barred, it ceases

Section
89-5-21

Entry of satisfaction upon record of mortgage or deed of trust

Section
89-5-23

Oil, gas, and mineral leases; cancellation of record upon expiration

Section
89-5-24

Form of certain documents or instruments presented for recording; contents; exempt documents or instruments; additional recording fee for nonconforming documents or instruments

Section
89-5-25

How instrument recorded and indexed; records public; copies

Section
89-5-27

Receipt for instruments delivered to chancery clerk for recording

Section
89-5-29

Mortgages and deeds of trust on land; how recorded

Section
89-5-31

Repealed

Section
89-5-33

General index; direct and reverse

Section
89-5-35

How certain conveyances indexed

Section
89-5-37

Name of beneficiary must be disclosed in mortgage or deed of trust to be recorded; exception

Section
89-5-39

Books of record not to be removed

Section
89-5-41

Records in counties divided into two districts

Section
89-5-43

Penalty on clerk for failure of duty

Section
89-5-45

Substitution of trustee must appear of record; general substitution allowed for certain beneficiaries

Sections
89-5-47 through 89-5-53

Repealed