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Miss. Code Ann. § 99-37-1

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Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case 764 So. 2d 373 - City of Jackson v. Perry (2000)

Most recently applied in Johnny Ray Sims v. State of Mississippi (September 2017)

Laws, 1978, ch. 400, § 1; Laws, 1992, ch. 422, § 1, eff from and after passage (approved May 4, 1992

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As used in this chapter:

“Criminal activities” shall mean any offense with respect to which the defendant is convicted or any other criminal conduct admitted by the defendant.

“Pecuniary damages” shall mean all special damages, but not general damages, which a person could recover against the defendant in a civil action arising out of the facts or events constituting the defendant’s criminal activities and shall include, but not be limited to, the money equivalent of property taken, destroyed, broken or otherwise harmed, and losses such as medical expenses.

“Restitution” shall mean full, partial or nominal payment of pecuniary damages to a victim.

“Victim” shall mean any person whom the court determines has suffered pecuniary damages as a result of the defendant’s criminal activities. “Victim” shall not include any coparticipant in the defendant’s criminal activities, or any person knowingly participating in a criminal act at the time he became a victim.

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.