89-7-81 - Distress may be made after termination of lease. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 89-7-81. Distress may be made after termination of lease.
 

Any person, or his executor, administrator, or assigns having rent in arrear upon any lease for life, years, or otherwise, ended and determined, or a claim for supplies, may distrain for such arrears, after the termination of the lease, in the same manner as if the same had not been determined; but the distress must be made within six months after the termination of the lease, and during the continuance of the landlord's title or interest, and during the possession of the tenant from whom the arrears are due. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 56, art. 5(14); 1857, ch. 41, art. 7; 1871, § 1626; 1880, § 1308; 1892, § 2514; 1906, § 2852; Hemingway's 1917, § 2350; 1930, § 2201; 1942, § 923.