On the complaint of the state, by its Attorney General or a district attorney, in any matter affecting the public interest, or on the complaint of any private person who is interested, the judgment shall be issued by the circuit court, commanding any inferior tribunal, corporation, board, officer, or person to do or not to do an act the performance or omission of which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office, trust, or station, where there is not a plain, adequate, and speedy remedy in the ordinary course of law. All procedural aspects of this action shall be governed by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-41-1
In what cases a remedy and how obtained
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case 641 So. 2d 1218 - Allred v. Webb (1994)
Most recently applied in Bennett v. Board of Supervisors of Pearl River County (August 2008)
Codes, 1871, § 1517; 1880, § 2542; 1892, § 2846; 1906, § 3231; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2533; 1930, § 2348; 1942, § 1109; Laws, 1991, ch. 573, § 77, eff from and after July 1, 1991.
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.