The minutes so kept of proceedings in vacation or in term time shall constitute a record of the office and shall be carefully preserved as such, free from erasure or alteration; and, at the first term thereafter of the court, in the case of minutes in vacation, or in the case of minutes in term time before the clerk at that term or the first term thereafter, shall be examined by the court and if approved, shall thereby become the minutes of the court, as if entered at a term thereof; and all the orders and decrees entered in said minutes in vacation, shall, by such approval of the court, become final and be as valid and effectual as if done by the court when they were done by the clerk.
Miss. Code Ann. § 9-5-151
How minutes of proceedings before clerk preserved and approved
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Sims v. Stennis (1987)
Most recently applied in 510 So. 2d 798 - Matter of Estate of Davis (July 1987)
Codes, 1880, § 1817; 1892, § 472; 1906, § 521; Hemingway’s 1917, § 278; 1930, § 342; 1942 § 1253; Laws, 1974, ch. 449, § 5, eff from and after passage (approved March 26, 1974
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