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Miss. Code Ann. § 93-19-1 (2026)

Removal of disability as to real estate

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The chancery court of the county in which a minor resides, or the chancery court of a county in which a resident minor owns real estate in matters pertaining to such real estate, may remove the disability of minority of such minor. In cases of married minors, the residence of the husband shall be the residence of the parties. The chancery court of a county in which a nonresident minor of the State of Mississippi owns real estate or any interest in real estate may remove the disability of minority of such minor as to such real estate, so as to enable said minor to do and perform all acts with reference to such real estate, to sell and convey, to mortgage, to lease, and to make deeds of trust and contracts, including promissory notes, concerning said real estate, or any interest therein which may be owned by such minor, as fully and effectively as if said minor were eighteen (18) years of age. The jurisdiction thus exercised shall be that of a court of general equity jurisdiction, and all presumptions in favor of that adjudged shall be accorded at all times.

Codes, 1880, § 1838; 1892, § 493; 1906, § 543; Hemingway's 1917, § 300; 1930, § 353; 1942, § 1264; Laws, 1924, ch. 158; Laws, 1952, ch. 253; Laws, 1954, ch. 216; Laws, 1956, ch. 223; Laws, 1958, ch. 272, § 1; Laws, 1962, chs. 282, 283.

Amended by Laws, 2023, ch. 507, SB 2073,§ 6, eff. 7/1/2023.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1988–2013 · leading case: Mississippi State Bar Ass'n v. Moyo, 525 So. 2d 1289 (Miss. 1988).
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Mississippi State Bar Ass'n v. Moyo, 525 So. 2d 1289 (Miss. 1988). · cites it 2× “Miss. Code Ann. §§ 93-19-1 — 9 authorize chancery courts to remove disabilities of minority partially or generally.”
Barrett v. Mississippi Bar, 648 So. 2d 1154 (Miss. 1995). · cites it 6× “section 93-19-1 provides: The chancery court of the county in which a minor resides, or the chancery court of a county in which a resident minor owns real estate in matters pertaining to such real estate, may remove the disability of minority of such minor.”
Kelly Baker v. RR Brink Locking Sys., Inc., 721 F.3d 716 (5th Cir. 2013). · cites it 2× “4 Miss.Code Ann. § 93-19-1 et seq. Importantly, § 93-19-9 describes the terms of a *719 chancery court’s decree of removal of minority: The decree may be for partial removal of the disability of the minor so as to enable him to do some particular act proposed to be done and…”
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