89-13-7 - Enforcement of contribution; action for amount assessed. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 89-13-7. Enforcement of contribution; action for amount assessed.
 

The party may maintain an action for the amount assessed by the freeholders; and the order of the justice appointing the freeholders, and the certificate of the freeholders, and proof of notice to the opposite party of the time of the meeting, shall be prima facie evidence to support the action. The amount recovered shall be a lien upon the land or lot of the defendant. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 16, art. 3; 1871, § 1909; 1880, § 972; 1892, § 3129; 1906, § 3552; Hemingway's 1917, § 2869; 1930, § 5679; 1942, § 992.