85-7-41 - Writ; where returnable. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 85-7-41. Writ; where returnable.
 

The writ shall be returnable before the justice of the peace who issued it or some other justice of the peace, if the principal of the sum claimed does not exceed two hundred dollars, and, if it does, it shall be returnable to the circuit court; and in such case the affidavit shall be filed, by the officer who issued the writ, in the office of the clerk of the circuit court, on or before the return day of the writ. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1880, § 1365; 1892, § 2685; 1906, § 3045; Hemingway's 1917, § 2403; 1930, § 2248; 1942, § 346.