Mississippi Code

Miss. Code Ann. § 11-53-13 (2026)

Security for costs shall not be required in certain suits

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Neither the state, nor any county, city, town, or village, nor any state board, nor any state, county, city, town, or village officer, suing in his official character, shall be required to pay costs before commencing a suit, nor to give security for costs before or after the commencement of a suit.

Codes, 1880, § 2366; 1892, § 868; 1906, § 945; Hemingway's 1917, § 654; 1930, § 661; 1942, § 1572.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1984–1984 · leading case: City of Mound Bayou v. Roy Collins Const. Co., 457 So. 2d 337 (Miss. 1984).

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City of Mound Bayou v. Roy Collins Const. Co., 457 So. 2d 337 (Miss. 1984). · cites it 2× “A further manifestation of that public policy is Miss. Code Ann. § 11-53-13 (1972). That statute provides Neither the state, nor any county, city, town, or village, .”

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