This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Protection from Domestic Abuse Law.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 93-21-1
Short title
Known as the Protection from Domestic Abuse Law
The act spans §§ 93–93 (38 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case In Re Bailey (1989)
Most recently applied in 170 So. 3d 620 - Denise Pratt v. Nanette Nelson (July 2015)
Laws, 1981, ch 429, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 1981.
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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.
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