Miss. Code Ann. § 93-19-13

Persons eighteen years of age or older competent to contract in matters affecting personal property

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 681 So. 2d 82 - Morgan v. State (1996)

Most recently applied in Baker v. RR Brink Locking Systems, Inc. (July 2013)

Laws, 1976, ch. 406, § 3, eff from and after July 1, 1976.

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All persons eighteen (18) years of age or older, if not otherwise disqualified, or prohibited by law, shall have the capacity to enter into binding contractual relationships affecting personal property. Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect any contracts entered into prior to July 1, 1976.

In any legal action founded on a contract entered into by a person eighteen (18) years of age or older, the said person may sue in his own name as an adult and be sued in his own name as an adult and be served with process as an adult.

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.