Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-17-29 (2026)
Any other title may be confirmed
✓ current as of July 2026
The owner in possession of any land, or the owner thereof who may be out of possession, if there be no adverse occupancy thereof, may file a bill in the chancery court to have his title confirmed and quieted. The law for notice, process, proceedings, and practice, as provided for confirming and quieting tax titles shall apply, no matter by what tenure the complainant may hold. Unknown and nonresident parties may be made defendants as they are made defendants to proceedings to confirm tax titles. If on the final hearing of any such suit, the court shall be satisfied that the complainant is the real owner of the land, it shall so adjudge, and its decree shall be conclusive evidence of title as determined from the date of the decree as against all parties defendant.
Codes, 1892, § 499; 1906, § 549; Hemingway's 1917, § 306; 1930, § 403; 1942, § 1323.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 13
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1991–2026 · leading case: Am. Pub. Fin., Inc. v. Smith, 45 So. 3d 307 (Miss. Ct. App. 2010).
Am. Pub. Fin., Inc. v. Smith, 45 So. 3d 307 (Miss. Ct. App. 2010). “abused its discretion when it refused to set aside the judgment quieting title, (3) erroneously applied the bona-fide-purchaser-for-value standard in denying APF’s motion, (4) gave undue weight to the fact that one of APF’s principals is an attorney, and (5) did not adequately…”
White v. Usry, 800 So. 2d 125 (Miss. Ct. App. 2001). “6, § 160 (1890); Miss.Code Ann. §§ 11-17-29 & 11-17-31 (1972).”
John M. Barham, Jr. v. Mississippi Power Co., 266 So. 3d 994 (Miss. 2019). “6 Article 6, section 160, of the Mississippi Constitution states, And in addition to the jurisdiction heretofore exercised by the chancery court in suits to try title and to cancel deeds and other clouds upon title to real estate, it shall have jurisdiction in such cases to…”
Walker v. Murphree, 722 So. 2d 1277 (Miss. Ct. App. 1998). “Although we note that neither party filed an action to remove a cloud or to confirm and quiet title to the property in question pursuant to Mississippi Code Annotated Sections 11-17-29 and 11-17-31 (1972), the affirmative defense of adverse possession was sufficiently raised in…”
Charlot v. Henry, 45 So. 3d 1237 (Miss. Ct. App. 2010). “The chancery court said that in order to maintain an action to confirm and quiet title, the complainant must either be the owner in possession of the land or, if out of possession, that there be no adverse occupancy of the land, citing Mississippi Code Annotated section 11-17-29…”
Chevron USA, Inc. v. State, 578 So. 2d 644 (Miss. 1991). “Miss. Code Ann. § 11-17-29 (1972), authorizes suits in chancery court to confirm and quiet title.”
Merle George Smith, Jr. v. Carla Ann Pettigrew, 223 So. 3d 173 (Miss. Ct. App. 2017). “Under Mississippi Code Annotated section 11-17-29 (Rev. 2004), to have title confirmed, the claimant must either possess the property or the property must be unoccupied.”
Dixon v. Parker, 831 So. 2d 1202 (Miss. Ct. App. 2002). “; Miss. Code Ann. § 11-17-29 (1972). To remove a cloud on title, the claimant may properly bring, suit against someone in possession.”
City of Waynesboro v. McMichael, 856 So. 2d 474 (Miss. Ct. App. 2003). “ellation of clouds on title to all lands depicted as Katherine Street on the plat of Hudson Park Subdivision; (3) an adjudication that the City had legal title to the lands known as Katherine Street by virtue of statutory dedication by grant and/or common law dedication based on…”
Norman v. United States, 962 F. Supp. 936 (S.D. Miss. 1996). “§ 11-17-29 provides, in part, that “[t]he owner in possession of any land, .”
Ophelia Ray v. O'Possum Ridge Farms & Lakeland Farms, LLC (Miss. Ct. App. 2019). “Its proper route to quiet title was then “a bill in the chancery court to have [its] title confirmed and quieted” pursuant to Mississippi Code Annotated section 11-17-29 (Rev. 2019). While that route may be foreclosed by estoppel, laches, or other affirmative defenses, I do not…”
Gregory Lee Hunter, Jacquelyn Marie Hunter, Mindy Malaika Hunter & Jacquelyn Marie Hunter, as Adm'x of the Est. of Minnie Pearl Hicks Hunter v. Donald Wayne McCoy, Sr. (Miss. Ct. App. 2026). “The Mississippi Supreme Court has held that “[r]eading Section 27-43-1 in conjunction with Section 27-43-3, the ‘reputed owner’ referenced in Section 27-43-3 is the ‘record owner of the land sold as of one hundred eighty (180) days prior to the expiration of the time of…”
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