69-13-17 - Any person may take up stock. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 69-13-17. Any person may take up stock.
 

Any such livestock as referred to in Section 69-13-1 may be taken up and confined by any person upon whose land such animal, or animals, may have entered or may be found, such person not having consented for the animal, or animals, to run at large on such land, and when so taken up shall be dealt with as estrays. For taking up any animal the person so taking the animal up shall be allowed ten dollars ($10.00) per head for each animal so taken up, but in no case shall he be entitled to receive more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for stock taken up at any one time. He may also receive reasonable compensation for feeding and caring for such animals while keeping them. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 16, art. 16; 1871, § 1922; 1880, § 985; 1892, §§ 2046, 2047; 1906, §§ 2225, 2226; Hemingway's 1917, §§ 4544, 4545; 1930, § 5444; 1942, § 4872; Laws,  1978, ch. 372, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 1978.