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Miss. Code Ann. § 29-3-3 (2026)

Suits to establish title

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The board of education may employ one (1) or more competent persons to ascertain the true condition of the title and to institute and prosecute, in the chancery court of the county where the land lies, all necessary suits to establish and confirm the title to each parcel of such land and to fix the date of the expiration of any lease of the same. If any person claim any of said land in fee simple or upon any other terms than that of a lease to expire at a fixed date with absolute reversion to the state in trust, or if the title to such lands rest in parol by destruction of records or otherwise, suit shall be instituted at once or as soon as practicable to test the legality of such claims or to re-establish the lost record.

Codes, 1930, § 6756; 1942, § 6594; Laws, 1924, ch. 283; Laws, 1930, ch. 278; Laws, 1978, ch. 525, § 6, eff. 7/1/1978.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1989–2003 · leading case: Bd. of Educ. of Calhoun Cnty. v. Warner, 853 So. 2d 1159 (Miss. 2003).
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Bd. of Educ. of Calhoun Cnty. v. Warner, 853 So. 2d 1159 (Miss. 2003). “The chancellor found that Miss.Code Ann. § 29-3-3 (Rev.2000), which authorizes boards of education "to institute and prosecute .”
Madison Cnty. Bd. of Educ. v. Illinois Cent. R.R., 728 F. Supp. 423 (S.D. Miss. 1989). “Miss.Code Ann. § 29-3-3 (Supp.1989). Madison County asserts that the grant to the railroad violated the obligation of the state pursuant to the sixteenth section school land trust created under the compact of April 18,1802, between the State of Georgia and the United States by…”
Bd. of Educ. of Calhoun Cnty., Mississippi v. James Sidney Warner (Miss. 2001). “The chancellor found that Miss. Code Ann. § 29-3-3 (Rev. 2000), which authorizes boards of education “”to institute and prosecute .”
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