15-1-7 - Limitations applicable to actions to recover land. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 15-1-7. Limitations applicable to actions to recover land.
 

A person may not make an entry or commence an action to recover land except within ten years next after the time at which the right to make the entry or to bring the action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims, or, if the right shall not have accrued to any person through whom he claims, then except within ten years next after the time at which the right to make the entry or bring the action shall have first accrued to the person making or bringing the same. However, if, at the time at which the right of any person to make an entry or to bring an action to recover land shall have first accrued, such person shall have been under the disability of infancy or unsoundness of mind, then such person or the person claiming through him may, notwithstanding that the period of ten years hereinbefore limited shall have expired, make an entry or bring an action to recover the land at any time within ten years next after the time at which the person to whom the right shall have first accrued shall have ceased to be under either disability, or shall have died, whichever shall have first happened. However, when any person who shall be under either of the disabilities mentioned, at the time at which his right shall have first accrued, shall depart this life without having ceased to be under such disability, no time shall be allowed, by reason of the disability of any other person, to make an entry or to bring an action to recover the land beyond the period of ten years next after the time at which such person shall have died. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 57, arts. 1 (1), 6 (1); 1857, ch. 57, art. 1; 1871, § 2147; 1880, § 2664; 1892, § 2730; 1906, § 3090; Hemingway's 1917, § 2454; 1930, § 2285; 1942, § 709.