73-3-59 - Unlawful to encourage litigation; penalty. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 73-3-59. Unlawful to encourage litigation; penalty.
 

Any attorney at law who shall violate the provisions of the preceding section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be removed and disbarred from acting as an attorney at law, and any person who shall, before or after suit brought, receive or agree to receive from any attorney at law, compensation for services in seeking out or placing in the hands of an attorney a demand of any kind for suit or a compromise, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1906, § 232; Hemingway's 1917, § 209; 1930, § 3712; 1942, § 8684; reenacted without change, Laws,  1983, ch. 457, § 15; reenacted, 1991, ch. 560, § 15; reenacted without change, Laws, 1999, ch. 372, § 16; reenacted without change, Laws, 2003, ch. 524, § 15; reenacted without change, Laws, 2006, ch. 471, § 15, eff from and after July 1, 2006.