Jurisdiction; service of process
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 256 So. 3d 1 - Purdue Pharma L.P. v. State of Mississippi (2018)
Most recently applied in 256 So. 3d 1 - Purdue Pharma L.P. v. State of Mississippi (October 2018)
Laws, 1984, ch. 503, § 12, eff from and after passage (approved May 15, 1984
(1) An action brought in connection with any matter under this article may be filed in the circuit court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County or in the circuit court of the county in which the defendant resides, and may be prosecuted to final judgment in satisfaction there.
(2) Process issued by a court in which an action is filed may be served anywhere in the state.
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.