All actions and suits for any penalty or forfeiture on any penal statute, brought by any person to whom the penalty or forfeiture is given, in whole or in part, shall be commenced within one year next after the offense was committed, and not after.
Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-33
Limitations applicable to actions and suits for penalty or forfeiture
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 837 F. Supp. 771 - Lawrence v. Jackson MacK Sales, Inc. (1992)
Most recently applied in 943 So. 2d 35 - Stockstill v. Gammill (October 2006)
Codes, 1857, ch. 57, art. 23; 1871, § 2167; 1880, § 2672; 1892, § 2741; 1906, § 3101; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2465; 1930, § 2301; 1942, § 731.
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