This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Residential Landlord and Tenant Act.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-1
Short title
Known as the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act
The act spans §§ 89–89 (14 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Houston v. York (1999)
Most recently applied in Crawford v. Yotty (March 2013)
Laws, 1991, ch. 478, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 1991.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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