Any person or corporation having the right to condemn private property for public use shall exercise that right as provided in this chapter, except as elsewhere specifically provided under the laws of the state of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-27-1
Who may exercise right of eminent domain
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Steve Bryan v. The City of Madison Mississippi (2000)
Most recently applied in Delta MK, LLC v. Mississippi Transportation Commission (April 2011)
Codes, 1942, § 2749-01; Laws, 1971, ch. 520, § 1, eff from and after January 1, 1972.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.