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Miss. Code Ann. § 89-5-7 (2026)

Written contracts in relation to land recordable

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Every title-bond or other written contract in relation to land may be acknowledged or proved, and certified and recorded, in the same manner as conveyances of land; and such acknowledgment or proof, and the proper certificate thereof and delivery to the clerk of the chancery court of the proper county to be recorded, shall be notice to all subsequent purchasers of the existence of such bond or contract.

Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 42, art. 1 (6); 1857, ch. 36, art. 24; 1871, § 2307; 1880, § 1214; 1892, § 2459; 1906, § 2789; Hemingway's 1917, § 2293; 1930, § 2141; 1942, § 862.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1987–2014 · leading case: Buras v. Shell Oil Co., 666 F. Supp. 919 (S.D. Miss. 1987).
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Buras v. Shell Oil Co., 666 F. Supp. 919 (S.D. Miss. 1987). “Defendant argues that since Miss. Code Ann. § 89-5-7 provides that written contracts in relation to land may be recorded, such contracts are not required to be recorded and therefore are binding upon subsequent purchasers without recordation.”
Cmty. Extended Care Centers, Inc. v. Bd. of Supervisors, 756 So. 2d 798 (Miss. Ct. App. 1999). “1977), CECC contends the Board assumed the responsibility of recording the lease contract when its attorney notified CECC that he, as attorney for the Board, had filed the lease contract in the land records of the Humphreys County Chancery Clerk in accordance with Miss.Code Ann.…”
Cmty. Trust Bank of Mississippi v. First Nat'l Bank of Clarksdale, 150 So. 3d 683 (Miss. 2014). “” Miss. Code Ann. § 89-5-7 (Rev. 2011) (emphasis added).”
Tally Arms Condo. Ass'n v. Breland, 854 So. 2d 28 (Miss. Ct. App. 2003). “Miss.Code Ann. § 89-5-7 (Rev.1999). The notice of condominium lien does not clearly fit within either of these two statutes.”
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