The chancery court in addition to the full jurisdiction in all the matters and cases expressly conferred upon it by the constitution shall have jurisdiction of all cases transferred to it by the circuit court or remanded to it by the supreme court; and such further jurisdiction, as is, in this chapter or elsewhere, provided by law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 9-5-81
Jurisdiction of the chancery court, in general
Applied in 21 court decisions — leading case 603 So. 2d 301 - Crowe v. Smith (1992)
Most recently applied in 164 So. 3d 1057 - Donald Breeden v. Willie Faye Breeden Buchanan (February 2015)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 54, arts. 2 (1), 10 (4); 1857, ch. 62, art. 2; 1871, § 974; 1880, § 1829; 1892, § 482; 1906, § 532; Hemingway’s 1917, § 289; 1930, § 351; 1942, § 1…
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