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Miss. Code Ann. § 11-53-19

Court may dismiss action of poor persons

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 594 So. 2d 25 - Blanks v. State (1992)

Most recently applied in Blake v. ESTATE OF CLEIN EX REL. CLEIN (June 2010)

Codes, 1880, § 2370; 1892, § 871; 1906, § 948; Hemingway’s 1917, § 657; 1930, § 664; 1942, § 1575.

The court may dismiss an action commenced or continued on affidavit of poverty, if satisfied that the allegation of poverty was untrue.

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.