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Miss. Code Ann. § 85-7-523

Remedy for lien wrongly filed

Laws, 2014, ch. 522, § 12; reenacted without change, Laws, 2017, ch. 348, § 12, eff from and after July 1, 2017.

Any broker who falsely and maliciously files or causes to be filed a notice of lien under this article that brings in question or disparages the title to property may be held liable in a civil action for damages, in which case damages shall be recoverable up to two (2) times the amount of monetary damages caused by the broker’s false and malicious acts, in addition to any other damages.

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.