The limitations prescribed in this chapter shall not be changed in any way whatsoever by contract between parties, and any change in such limitations made by any contracts stipulation whatsoever shall be absolutely null and void, the object of this section being to make the period of limitations for the various causes of action the same for all litigants.
Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-5
Period of limitations shall not be changed by contract
Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case 826 So. 2d 719 - Russell v. Performance Toyota, Inc. (2002)
Most recently applied in Volvo Fin. Servs., of VFS United States, L. L.C. v. Williamson (December 2018)
Codes, 1906, § 3127; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2491; 1930, § 2294; 1942, § 724.
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