Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 15-3-11 (2026)
Actions on contracts made during infancy
✓ current as of July 2026
An action shall not be maintained whereby to charge any person upon any promise made after full age to pay any debt contracted during infancy, or upon any ratification after full age of any promise or contract made during infancy, unless such promise or ratification shall be made by some writing, signed by the person to be charged therewith. The full age of ratification shall be eighteen (18) years of age.
Codes, 1857, ch. 44, art. 8; 1871, § 2898; 1880, § 1298; 1892, § 4232; 1906, § 4782; Hemingway's 1917, § 3126; 1930, § 3350; 1942, § 271.
Amended by Laws, 2023, ch. 507, SB 2073,§ 3, eff. 7/1/2023.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 1992–2001 · leading case: Morgan v. State, 681 So. 2d 82 (Miss. 1996).
Morgan v. State, 681 So. 2d 82 (Miss. 1996). “§ 93-19-13 (allowing only those individuals over age of eighteen to contract); see also Miss. Code Ann. § 15-3-11 (1972) (setting forth statutory steps for person of majority to ratify contract entered into as minor).”
Clemons v. State, 733 So. 2d 266 (Miss. 1999). “§ 93-19-13 (allowing only those individuals over age of eighteen to contract); Miss.Code Ann. § 15-3-11 (1972)(setting forth statutory steps for person of majority to ratify contract entered into as minor).”
Adoption of JMM v. New Beginnings of Tupelo, Inc., 796 So. 2d 975 (Miss. 2001). “§ 97-3-65(1)(b)(2000) makes it a crime for a person of any age to have sexual intercourse with a child who is under the age of fourteen or who is twenty-four or more months younger than the person.”
Daryl Leonard Morgan v. State of Mississippi (Miss. 1992). “§ 93-19-13 (allowing only those individuals over age of eighteen to contract) ; see also Miss. Code Ann. §15-3-11 (1972) (setting forth statutory steps for person of majority to ratify contract entered into as minor).”
Kenneth Clemons, Jr. v. State of Mississippi (Miss. 1997). “§ 93-19 - 13 (allowing only those individuals over age of eighteen to contract); Miss. Code Ann. § 15-3-11 (1972) (setting forth statutory steps for person of majority to ratify contract entered into as minor).”
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