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Section
1-3-1

Application of chapter

Section
1-3-3

Bond

Section
1-3-4

Capital case, capital offense, capital crime, and capital murder

Section
1-3-5

Crime

Section
1-3-7

Drugs

Section
1-3-9

Established

Section
1-3-11

Felony

Section
1-3-13

Fertilizers

Section
1-3-15

Food

Section
1-3-17

Gender, masculine to embrace the feminine

Section
1-3-19

Infamous crime

Section
1-3-21

Infant

Section
1-3-23

Insurrection

Section
1-3-24

Intellectual disability

Section
1-3-25

Land

Section
1-3-26

Minimum education program, minimum program, minimum foundation program

Section
1-3-27

Minor

Section
1-3-29

Month

Section
1-3-31

Navigable waters

Section
1-3-33

Number, singular and plural

Section
1-3-35

Oath

Section
1-3-37

Offense

Section
1-3-39

Person

Section
1-3-41

Personal property

Section
1-3-43

Promissory note

Section
1-3-45

Property

Section
1-3-47

Railroad

Section
1-3-49

State

Section
1-3-51

Stationery

Section
1-3-53

Sworn

Section
1-3-55

United States

Section
1-3-57

Unsound mind

Section
1-3-58

Ward

Section
1-3-59

Will

Section
1-3-61

Written

Section
1-3-63

Year

Section
1-3-65

Construction of terms generally

Section
1-3-67

How time computed when a number of days is prescribed

Section
1-3-69

When a number of weeks is prescribed

Section
1-3-71

Civil law to control computation of relationship unless otherwise provided

Section
1-3-73

Civil law to apply in construing

Section
1-3-75

Petitions must be signed personally by petitioners

Section
1-3-76

Procedures for contesting disqualification of signatures on petition requesting vote on matter affecting county or municipality

Section
1-3-77

General severability provision

Section
1-3-79

Treatment of amendments to same section by different bills during single legislative session; effective dates

Section
1-3-81

Captions of title, chapter, article, subarticle, part or section of Mississippi Code of 1972