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Miss. Code Ann. § 11-5-115

Rights of infants saved

Codes, 1857, ch. 62, art. 97; 1871, § 1265; 1880, § 1955; 1892, § 596; 1906, § 646; Hemingway’s 1917, § 408; 1930, § 468; 1942, § 1388.

When a decree shall be made for the sale or conveyance of the real estate of an infant, such decree shall be binding on the infant unless he shall, within one year after attaining the age of twenty-one years, show to the court good cause to the contrary; and it shall not be necessary to insert the saving in the decree, but the saving shall not extend to decrees for the sale of the property of deceased persons, authorizing sales by guardians, or enforcing deeds of trust or mortgages.

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