The judges of the Supreme, circuit and county courts and chancellors and judges of the Court of Appeals shall be conservators of the peace for the state, each with full power to do all acts which conservators of the peace may lawfully do; and the circuit judges and chancellors shall reside within their respective districts and the county judges shall reside in their respective counties.
Miss. Code Ann. § 9-1-23
Judges conservators of peace; must reside in district
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 1997 T.C. Memo. 526 - Robertson v. Commissioner (1997)
Most recently applied in 1997 T.C. Memo. 526 - Robertson v. Commissioner (November 1997)
Codes, 1857, ch. 61, art. 15; 1871, § 532; 1880, § 2268; 1892, § 917; 1906, § 993; Hemingway’s 1917, § 713; 1930, § 740; 1942, § 1655; Laws, 1993, ch. 518, § 12, eff July 13, 19…
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