Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-57 (2026)
Statute of limitations not to run when person prohibited to sue
✓ current as of July 2026
When any person shall be prohibited by law, or restrained or enjoined by the order, decree, or process of any court in this state from commencing or prosecuting any action or remedy, the time during which such person shall be so prohibited, enjoined or restrained, shall not be computed as any part of the period of time limited by this chapter for the commencement of such action.
Codes, 1857, ch. 57, art. 26; 1871, § 2170; 1880, § 2691; 1892, § 2758a; 1906, § 3120; Hemingway's 1917, § 2484; 1930, § 2307; 1942, § 737.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 31
cases (4 in the last 5 years), 1988–2025 · leading case: Scaggs v. Gpch-gp, Inc., 931 So. 2d 1274 (Miss. 2006).
Scaggs v. Gpch-gp, Inc., 931 So. 2d 1274 (Miss. 2006). “Section 15-1-57 and California precedent, this Court ultimately held the most reasonable interpretation of Miss.”
Pope v. Brock, 912 So. 2d 935 (Miss. 2005). “Miss.Code Ann. § 15-1-57 ¶ 14. Although neither party cited the following statute, we find it compelling: When any person shall be prohibited by law .”
Brittany Spann, LPN v. Patsy Wood, 269 So. 3d 10 (Miss. 2018). “Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-57 (Rev. 2012). 15 ¶22.”
Proli v. Hathorn, 928 So. 2d 169 (Miss. 2006). “§ 15-1-36 and Miss.Code Ann. § 15-1-57 in its analysis.”
Long v. Mem'l Hosp. at Gulfport, 969 So. 2d 35 (Miss. 2007). “Regardless of the validity of this Court's interlocutory appeal order which stayed the proceedings and tolled the statute of limitations, the Legislature provided a savings measure which removes the period of time a party is prohibited from prosecuting her claim from computation…”
Grant v. State, 686 So. 2d 1078 (Miss. 1996). “The Plaintiffs further allege that § 258 of the Mississippi Constitution effectively barred them from collecting on these bonds so that the statute of limitations was tolled under Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-57 . The chancellor, in his Final Judgment entered November 19, 1993,…”
Townsend v. Est. of Gilbert, 616 So. 2d 333 (Miss. 1993). “Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-57 (1972). This argument, however, is without merit.”
Parker v. Livingston, 817 So. 2d 554 (Miss. 2002). “Miss.Code Ann. § 15-1-57 (1991). (emphasis added).”
David McKean v. Yates Eng'g Corp., 210 So. 3d 1037 (Miss. Ct. App. 2015). “Mississippi Code Annotated section 15-1-57 provides: Where any person shall be prohibited by law, or restrained or enjoined by order, decree, or process of any court in this state from commencing or prosecuting any action or remedy, the time during which such person shall be so…”
Burnette Avakian v. Wilmington Trust, Nat'l Ass'n, 242 So. 3d 961 (Miss. Ct. App. 2018). “no error in the chancellor's determination that 'the Fifth Circuit's stay entered May 12, 2014, prohibiting [Equifirst, J.”
Marshall v. Kansas City S. Railways Co., 7 So. 3d 265 (Miss. Ct. App. 2007). “Mississippi Code Annotated section 15-1-57 ¶ 16. The Shepard beneficiaries argue that section 15-1-57 excepted from the period of limitations the time during which Shepard I was pending in federal court.”
White v. White, 601 So. 2d 864 (Miss. 1992). “She seeks solace in Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-57 (1972), which tolls the running of limitations during the period when the plaintiff is personally "prohibited by law .”
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