Civil jurisdiction; pecuniary interest in outcome of action
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 852 So. 2d 641 - Jackson v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. (2003)
Most recently applied in 988 So. 2d 407 - Statham v. Miller (July 2008)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 50, art 2 (9); 1857, ch 58, art. 7; 1871, § 1302; 1880, § 2190; 1892, § 2394; 1906, § 2723; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2222; 1930, § 2071; 1942, § 1805; L…
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.
Justice court judges shall have jurisdiction of all actions for the recovery of debts or damages or personal property, where the principal of the debt, the amount of the demand, or the value of the property sought to be recovered shall not exceed Three Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($3,500.00).
The justice court judges shall have no pecuniary interest in the outcome of any action once suit has been filed.
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.