Any person who claims an estate or interest in property against which proceedings have been instituted to have an escheat judicially declared, though not named in the bill or summoned, may, nevertheless, appear and answer the bill, interposing his title or claim, but shall not recover costs unless it appear that he has some estate or interest in the property, even though the state fail in establishing an escheat.
Miss. Code Ann. § 89-11-9
A claimant not a party may answer
Codes, 1857, ch. 17, art. 5; 1871, § 1848; 1880, § 885; 1892, § 1705; 1906, § 1882; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1525; 1930, § 1515; 1942, § 484.
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