Mississippi Code

Miss. Code Ann. § 11-47-1 (2026)

Record to be kept by chancery clerk

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The clerk of the chancery court shall keep in his office, as a public record, a suitable book, to be called the "Lis Pendens Record."

Codes 1892, § 2782; 1906, § 3147; Hemingway's 1917, § 2498; 1930, § 2324; 1942, § 754.


Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1988–1991 · leading case: Aldridge v. Aldridge, 527 So. 2d 96 (Miss. 1988).
Aldridge v. Aldridge, 527 So. 2d 96 (Miss. 1988). · cites it 2× “WAS THE LIS PENDENS NOTICE INEFFECTIVE AT THE TIME THESE APPELLANTS PURCHASED THE PROPERTY? Miss. Code Ann. § 11-47-1 (1972) provides the following: The clerk of the chancery court shall keep in his office, as a public record, a suitable book, to be called the "Lis Pendens…”
Crowe v. Eagle Bend Dev., P'ship, 579 So. 2d 1101 (La. Ct. App. 1991). “3751-3753; Miss. Code Ann. § 11-47-1 , et seq. Plaintiff does not assert he has title to or an encumbrance on the Mississippi properties.”
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