Any person, firm or corporation which claims title to or a leasehold or other interest in any real property, other than sixteenth section school lands or lands granted in lieu thereof, under or by virtue of a sale, conveyance or lease of such property by any county, municipality, supervisor’s district, or other political subdivision of the State of Mississippi, acting either separately or jointly, may proceed by sworn complaint in the chancery court of the county in which such real property, or some part thereof, is located, to have the title to or leasehold or other interest in such real property quieted and confirmed. Such action may be brought whether or not such person, firm or corporation be in possession of such real property, or whether he or it be threatened to be disturbed in such possession or not. In such complaint, the person, firm or corporation claiming such title or leasehold or other interest shall be the party plaintiff and there shall be made defendants thereto the county, municipality or other political subdivision which sold, conveyed or leased said property, the Attorney General of the state and the district attorney of the county in which said suit is filed. In any such suit, it shall not be necessary that the plaintiff therein deraign his title to said property.
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-17-19
Confirmation of title or interests granted by political subdivision
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 757 So. 2d 155 - Hearn v. Autumn Woods Office Park Property Owners Association (1999)
Most recently applied in 757 So. 2d 155 - Hearn v. Autumn Woods Office Park Property Owners Association (December 1999)
Codes, 1942, § 1322-01; Laws, 1954, ch. 248, § 1; Laws, 1991, ch. 573, § 34, eff from and after July 1, 1991.
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