Find Laws Find Lawyers Free Legal Forms USA State Laws

MISSISSIPPI STATUTES AND CODES

9-1-23 - Judges conservators of peace; must reside in district.

§ 9-1-23. Judges conservators of peace; must reside in district.
 

The judges of the Supreme, circuit and county courts and chancellors and judges of the Court of Appeals shall be conservators of the peace for the state, each with full power to do all acts which conservators of the peace may lawfully do; and the circuit judges and chancellors shall reside within their respective districts and the county judges shall reside in their respective counties. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 61, art. 15; 1871, § 532; 1880, § 2268; 1892, § 917; 1906, § 993; Hemingway's 1917, § 713; 1930, § 740; 1942, § 1655; Laws,  1993, ch. 518, § 12, eff July 13, 1993 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to the amendment of this section).
 

Mississippi Forms by Issue

Mississippi Business Forms
Mississippi Court Forms
> Case Evaluation
> Dispute
Mississippi Divorce Forms
Mississippi Family Forms
Mississippi Gun Forms
Mississippi Marriage Forms
Mississippi Name Change Forms
Mississippi Tax Forms

Mississippi Law

Mississippi State Laws
    > Mississippi Child Support
    > Mississippi Gun Laws
    > Mississippi Statute
Mississippi Tax
    > Mississippi State Tax
Mississippi Agencies
    > Mississippi Department of Corrections
    > Mississippi Department of Education
    > Mississippi Secretary of State
    > Mississippi State Tax Commission

Mississippi Court Map

Tips