An estate of inheritance or freehold, or for a term of more than one (1) year, in lands shall not be conveyed from one to another unless the conveyance be declared by writing signed and delivered.
Miss. Code Ann. § 89-1-3
Land to be conveyed only by writing
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 481 So. 2d 770 - Turney v. Marion County Bd. of Educ. (1985)
Most recently applied in T & W Homes Etc, LLC v. James Kendall Crotwell (August 2017)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 42, art. 1 (1); 1857, ch. 36, art. 19; 1871, § 2302; 1880, § 1188; 1892, § 2434; 1906, § 2763; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2267; 1930, § 2111; 1942, § 832.
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