Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 9-5-133 (2026)
How clerk of chancery court may appoint deputies
✓ current as of July 2026
The clerk of the chancery court shall have power, with the approbation of the court, or of the judge in vacation, to appoint one or more deputies, who shall take the oath of office, and who thereupon shall have power to do and perform all the acts and duties which their principal may lawfully do; such approval, when given by the judge in vacation, shall be in writing, and shall be entered on the minutes of the court at the next term.
Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 27, class 2, art. 1 (12); class 3 art. 1 (10); 1857, ch. 61, art. 17, ch. 62, art. 13; 1871, §§ 551, 990; 1880, § 2281; 1892, § 930; 1906, § 1006; Hemingway's 1917, § 726; 1930, § 747; 1942, § 1662.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1986–1993 · leading case: Warren Cnty. v. Culkin, 497 So. 2d 433 (Miss. 1986).
Warren Cnty. v. Culkin, 497 So. 2d 433 (Miss. 1986). “Miss. Code Ann. § 9-5-133 (1972). From October of 1980 until November of 1984, the only event of consequence was that the cost of insurance premiums paid by the county roughly doubled.”
Moore v. McCullough, 633 So. 2d 421 (Miss. 1993). “The clerk's general powers and duties are enumerated in Miss. Code Ann. §§ 9-5-133 141 (1991). The majority contends that because these duties are "purely ministerial," the clerk is not a "member" of the board of supervisors as contemplated *425 by the statute.”
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