An action or scire facias may not be brought against any executor or administrator upon any judgment or other cause of action against his testator or intestate, except within four years after the qualification of such executor or administrator.
Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-25
Limitations applicable to action or scire facias against executor or administrator
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 616 So. 2d 333 - Townsend v. Estate of Gilbert (1993)
Most recently applied in 493 F. App'x 587 - Vernita Bell v. Texaco, Incorporated (October 2012)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 57, art 6 (12); 1857, ch. 57, art. 11; 1871, § 2155; 1880, § 2676; 1892, § 2745; 1906, § 3105; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2469; 1930, § 2295; 1942, § 725.
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.