A chancellor shall be elected for and from each of the chancery court districts as provided in this chapter and the listing of individual precincts shall be those precincts as they existed on October 1, 1990. He shall hold court in any other district with the consent of the chancellor thereof when in their opinion the public interest may be thereby promoted. The terms of all chancellors elected at the regular election for the year 1930 shall begin on the first day of January, 1931, and their terms of office shall continue for four (4) years. A chancellor shall be a resident of the district in which he serves but shall not be required to be a resident of a subdistrict if the district is divided into subdistricts.
Miss. Code Ann. § 9-5-1
Chancellors; election, holding of court terms, terms of office, and residency
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Bryant v. Westbrooks (2012)
Most recently applied in Bryant v. Westbrooks (September 2012)
Codes, 1857, ch. 62, art. 1; 1871, § 978; 1880, §§ 1803, 1804; 1892, §§ 456, 458; 1906, § 505; Hemingways’s 1917, § 261; 1930, § 319; 1942 § 1227; Laws, 1930, ch. 113; Laws, 199…
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